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  • The particular works of each are manifestations of the general character of his lifework, whether it was of faith and love whereby alone we can please God and escape condemnation. pass -- Greek, "conduct yourselves during." sojourning -- The outward state of the Jews in their dispersion is an emblem of the sojourner-like state of all believers in this world, away from our true Fatherland. fear -- reverential, not slavish. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
  • The man's search for a tyrannical fatherland never ends!
  • The salvation of the fatherland is left to us craftsmen and shopkeepers; but we are not equal to such a task; we've never even claimed to be capable of that.
  • Nor is my fatherland unknown to fame, e'en Sparta, or my sire Tyndareus; for a legend tells how Zeus winged his way to my mother Leda's breast, in the semblance of a bird, even a swan, and thus as he fled from an eagle's pursuit, achieved by guile his amorous purpose, if this tale be true. Helen
  • Implicit in this rejection is the notion that being colonized by the British was a cake walk - cricket, polo, tea parties, and quite walks in the park - rather than some brutal foreign colonial power exploiting anotherforeignland for the benefit of King and Queen, or as Hitler would have said, the fatherland. Archive 2009-04-01
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  • What we have to fight for is the freedom and independence of the fatherland, so that our people may be enabled to fulfill the mission assigned to it by the creator
  • This, then, is the sign of virtu in rulers and citizens alike: each must be prepared to advance not his own interests but the general good, not his own posterity but the common fatherland.
  • It is associated with the Catholic Church, the institution of marriage, loyalty to the fatherland, and belief in general.
  • I did not want to recriminate, but yesterday I saw a sitting of the Jacobins; I shudder for the fatherland; I saw forming itself the army of the new Moniteur/Morning Chronicle
  • You managed to do a good deed, defeating the most sinister of dictators, who destroyed the country, killed our compatriots and wasted the wealth of the fatherland.
  • Already, we have had the spectacle of the "decontaminated" Conservative party courting the Latvian Fatherland and Freedom party, several of whose MPs marched on 16 March in Riga with veterans of the Latvian SS. The Guardian World News
  • For those interested, the word expatriate comes from the Latin ex (out of) and patria (fatherland), and there are countries with legal definition for the term. gpkisner Page 2
  • Page 184 we revilingly say, with some of their ungrateful descendants, that the good sense and love of liberty which had so lately driven them from their fatherland, to find an asylum here from the galling yoke of British oppression, had been so entirely absorbed in the passion for gain, as to cause them to be deaf to the claims of justice and humanity in behalf of the African! Lectures on the Philosophy and Practice of Slavery, as Exhibited in the Institution of Domestic Slavery in the United States: with the Duties of Masters to Slaves.
  • We have no nationality, borders or motherlands or homelands or fatherlands or nativity.
  • Neatly dressed, their hair slicked back, they beam as they are roused to fervour for the fatherland by their tutor.
  • I am pronouncedly, and have been since I first stepped upon the soil of my fatherland in 1878, an African colonizationist, but I am so in a strictly qualified sense, as is shown in the official statement made to my and your government -- made from the United States Consulate-General, Monrovia, under the date of February 21, 1883. Africa and the American Negro...Addresses and Proceedings of the Congress on Africa Held Under the Auspices of the Stewart Missionary Foundation for Africa of Gammon Theological Seminary in Connection with the Cotton States and International Exposition De
  • Had not the years of turmoil affected those to whom appeals had been made about liberating the common fatherland from a tyrant?
  • During your years of effort Finland remained for you as for the noble commandant in Runeberg's poem: "the sullen, needy, humble, and holy Fatherland". Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1945 - Presentation Speech
  • For from the day that they did land upon Scamander's strand, their doom began, not for loss of stolen frontier nor yet for fatherland with frowning towers; whomso Ares slew, those never saw their babes again, nor were they shrouded for the tomb by hand of wife, but in a foreign land they lie. The Trojan Women
  • General Joubert then protested that the Boers were fighting merely for the freedom of their own "narrower" Fatherland, and not with a view to the destruction of British preponderancy in South Africa. South Africa and the Transvaal War, Vol. 2 (of 6) From the Commencement of the War to the Battle of Colenso, 15th Dec. 1899
  • I stood mute and broken in the winds of my fatherland, trying to listen to the part of me that wouldn't die.
  • Now, through the courtesy of the national banking system the Maisanta list will include those who gave money to Sumate, allowing the creation, one can imagine, of a new category: active complot makers against the fatherland, which will mean that they will be the opposition members that have to be punished first and foremost. Refining political apartheid: the Albornoz list
  • Any authority will do, any divine mission, any sacred fatherland or revolution.
  • For those interested, the word expatriate comes from the Latin ex (out of) and patria (fatherland), and there are countries with legal definition for the term. Page 2
  • But the Trojans were dying, first for their fatherland, fairest fame to win; whomso the sword laid low, all these found friends to bear their bodies home and were laid to rest in the bosom of their native land, their funeral rites all duly paid by duteous hands. The Trojan Women
  • Permanently traumatized by her brutal violation, Urania flees the Dominican Republic for a sterile and wearisome expatriate existence before she belatedly returns one final time to her fatherland.
  • Neruda, he said, would like to extol the virtues of his fatherland for all nations to see while Sitor seems to be a cosmopolite still weighed down by the legacy of his ancestors.
  • We define a location as human property; we inhabit it and call it motherland, fatherland, native land, homeland.
  • Now the sentiment behind the hymn - the restoration of the Fatherland - had again become relevant.
  • In connection with the discussion on the relocation of jobs, several politicians have accused them of behaving ‘unpatriotically,’ even ‘as though they had no fatherland.’
  • Such is the reward that traitors who betray their fatherland deserve.
  • I feel that India is my motherland, and America is my fatherland.
  • Hey, buddy. I was beginning to figure they'd ploughed you Into the Fatherland.
  • The original word Rusini is derived from Rus, the abstract word for Russian fatherland or dwelling-place of the Slavic people; and the English word "Russian" may therefore mean a derivative from the word Rus, as denominating the race, or it may mean a subject of the Russian Empire. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
  • It may well be doubted, on an impartial view, if the mutilation of the country's industrial system by such measures of isolation does not after all rather weaken the nation even for warlike ends; but then, the discretionary authorities in the dynastic States are always, and it may be presumed necessarily, hampered with obsolete theories handed down from that cameralistic age, when the little princes of the Fatherland were making dynastic history. An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation
  • But the political row is far more than a linguistic challenge about expressing love for the fatherland without using the forbidden phrase.
  • They shed their blood lyrically for the counting-house; and they defended the shop, that immense diminutive of the fatherland, with Lacedaemonian enthusiasm. Les Miserables
  • The Fatherland Party was lavishly financed by Rhineland industrialists, but it was no mere front for the ruling classes.
  • The party is made an equivalent of the nation, and loyalty to the fatherland is transferred to the party.
  • They were willing to serve the fatherland in its hour of need.
  • This, however, was balanced by another new article stressing the importance of the ‘Defence of the Socialist Fatherland’.
  • They were willing to serve the fatherland in its hour of need.
  • His existence since that dreadful event has involved the pathetic search for an alternative fatherland.
  • And then in the name of that right, shall I not slay them for murdering their Queen, and be slain in my turn by their countrymen as the invader of their fatherland?
  • This range was our fatherland; among these mountains our tipis were hidden. PAINT THE WIND
  • They inherited a tradition of faith and fatherland which gave them strength and sustenance wherever life took them.
  • He was a refugee and recalls the time that he left his fatherland with sadness.
  • This realistic film helps people experience the emotions of a student who returns to his fatherland as a Christian.
  • The great majority of the foreigners regarded America as a new and better fatherland.
  • I from her may obtain an oracle how I shall steer a favourable course to the sea-girt shores of Cyprus; for there Apollo hath declared my home shall be, giving to it the name of Salamis, my island home, in honour of that fatherland across the main. Helen
  • The people called him the Apostle of Freedom because he gave his whole life for his ideal - the freedom of his fatherland.
  • On returning to France, to the bosom of the great, strong, magnificent, peaceful, and glorious fatherland, I should have proclaimed her frontiers immutable; all future wars purely defensive, all aggrandizement antinational. War and Peace
  • Everyone had zest: for years they had done nothing but police work, now again they were an army, defending the fatherland. COUP D'ETAT
  • It demands loyalty to the fatherland or motherland.
  • He will turn you into a blessing for your environment, your fatherland, for the whole world, and guide you in bringing the world closer to God.
  • The role of regional produce, the aspirations of the modern restaurant guest and the effect of this new gastronomy on the French fatherland are debated during the first three days of the festival.
  • I meet people instantaneously - a girl from Nice who tells me about her fascination with Portugal, and a boy from Brazil, here to discover the fatherland.
  • The word patriotism comes from a Greek word meaning fatherland.
  • This kind of heirship is independent of the ties of kindred, independent of succession from parents, and requires nothing else save only power to utter the speech of the fatherland. The Letters of Cassiodorus Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator
  • By all means, Rep. Broun, save us from this Judeo-Bolshevist plot against the Fatherland! Think Progress » Rep. Paul Broun: The ramifications of health reform will be like ‘the Great War of Yankee Aggression.’
  • Such a blow would be far worse than whatever damage the liberals themselves could do to the fatherland.
  • In Van Renterghem's words, Makine ‘chose to write in French to escape the tutelary shadows of his fatherland’ and Hector Biancotti likewise notes Makine's ‘power of freedom.’
  • About the centre of the valley lay the genial Hauptmann von Krehl, more silent than ever now, for a bullet had gone right through that red head of his and he would never more quaff of the Niersteiner; neither would Lieutenant von Klipphausen ever again stir the blood of the sons of the Fatherland with the _Wacht am Rhein_; he lay dead close by the first spur of the slope -- what of him at least a bursting shell had left. Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places

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