EVEN as a young man Conwell won local fame as an orator. At the outbreak of the Civil War he began making patriotic speeches that gained enlistments. After going to the front he was sent back home for a time, on furlough, to make more speeches to draw more recruits, for his speeches were so persuasive, so powerful, so full of homely and patriotic feeling, that the men who heard them thronged into the ranks. And as a preacher he uses persuasion, power, simple and homely eloquence, to draw men to the ranks of Christianity.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
David II., a mild and well-meaning prince, was too weak to carry his father's policy out. He tried to maintain peace, and did homage to his uncle, the King of England. But, as the head of the patriotic party, his more energetic brother, Griffith, opposed him. By guile he caught Griffith, and shut him in a castle on the rock of Criccieth. The other princes shook off the yoke of Gwynedd, and Henry III. tried to play the brothers against each other. David sent Griffith to Henry, who put him in the Tower of London. In trying to escape, his rope broke, and he fell to the ground dead.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
The Tudors--Henry VII., his son, Henry VIII., and his three grandchildren, Edward VI. and Mary and Elizabeth--ruled England and Wales from 1485 to 1603. Under them the people became united, law- abiding, patriotic, and prosperous. The Tudor period is justly regarded as the most glorious in British history, with its great statesmen, its great adventurers, and its great poets.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
Wales looked on, with indifference and apathy at first, and then with murmurs. The movement had no attraction: it had many causes of offence. In England the political movement became a patriotic, an intellectual, and a religious movement; and it succeeded. In Ireland, also, it was political, but it could not appeal to patriotism, because it was an English movement; and it failed. In Wales, it was neither welcomed nor opposed; it was simply tolerated, and with a bad grace.英文原著 · 《A Short History of Wales》
The emotional temperament of Conwell has always made him responsive to the great, the striking, the patriotic. He was deeply influenced by knowing John Brown, and his brief memories of Lincoln are intense, though he saw him but three times in all.英文原著 · 《Acres of Diamonds》
The alternative had not appealed to him, of being one of those responsible for sending other men to death while remaining himself in security and comfort. "It's a matter of temperament," he said. "Somebody's got to stop behind and do the patriotic speechifying. I'm glad I didn't. Especially after what I've seen."
He had lost interest in politics. "There's something bigger coming," he said. "Here everything seems to be going on much the same, but over there you feel it. Something growing silently out of all this blood and mud.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
{an9}BGM: My Country, 'Tis of Thee *Let mortal tongues awake* *Let all that breathe partake* *Let rocks their silent break* I have a soft spot for that patriotic stuff.美剧 · 《House of Cards》
Didn't you ask that question or do you believe these gentlemen back you out of patriotic duty and your inestimable worth?电影 · 《Legends Of The Fall (1994)》