A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.


Specimens of the Table Talk of the Late Samuel Taylor Coleridge: In Two Volumes (ed. 1835)


A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.

A nation to be great ought to be compressed in its increment by nations more civilized than itself.