Nation

Examples

• The tribe was a big family; the nation a group of tribal families; a household often contained hundreds of people. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• By all which acquirements, I should be a living treasure of knowledge and wisdom, and certainly become the oracle of the nation. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• A genius usually becomes the luminous center of a nation's crisis,--men see better by the light of him. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The Babylonians were a nation of agriculturists and merchants. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The same principle has application on the side of the considerations which concern the relations of one nation to another. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• The next morning Early started on his march to the capital of the Nation, arriving before it on the 11th. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Don't you think the English nation perfect in every respect? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• There were astronomers from nearly every nation, says Mr. Edison. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Another is the recommendation to the city and the nation that it should protect arriving immigrants, and if necessary escort them to their homes. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• A nation bent upon a policy of social invention would make its tools an incident. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• But it does not become bound to admit them upon any better terms than those of any other nation, of France or Holland, for example. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We picture political institutions as mechanically constructed contrivances within which the nation's life is contained and compelled to approximate some abstract idea of justice or liberty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Scarce any nation has dealt equally and impartially with every sort of industry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The americans have no troublesome Neighbors, they are without foreign Possessions, and do not want the alliance of any Nation, for this Reason they have nothing to do with foreign Politics. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The opposition of rival manufacturers could not in the nature of things long retard what was to become one of the nation’s main industries. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There are also characters peculiar to different nations and particular persons, as well as common to mankind. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Nations with a glorious past as to bravery but with a poor armament have gone down suddenly before smaller forces armed with modern ordnance. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• These fundamental principles have since been adopted and incorporated in their laws by all the nations of the earth. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Or--mark my words--the Order of the Temple will be utterly demolished--and the Place thereof shall no more be known among the nations. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Italy claims the honour among European nations of first introducing a machine for sowing grain. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• He sees no hope of happiness or peace for mankind until all nations of the earth are comprehended in a single empire. Plato. The Republic.
• The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Among nations of hunters, such as the native tribes of North America, age is the sole foundation of rank and precedency. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Whole ages have fled and their works decayed, And nations have scattered been; But the stout old Ivy shall never fade, From its hale and hearty green. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It is well known that Indians are of different tribes, nations, and languages, as well as the white people. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• In the matter of slavery; all nations had slaves; some treated them very cruelly, some with moderate cruelty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Five Nations of the Iroquois (see map, p. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• For in every state there are two hostile nations, rich and poor, which you may set one against the other. Plato. The Republic.
• Let other nations be merchants and warriors, while Greece reasserts her ancient vocation of teacher. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• I chiefly fed mine eyes with beholding the destroyers of tyrants and usurpers, and the restorers of liberty to oppressed and injured nations. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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