Excerpt from Imperial Britain, Vol. 1: A Comprehensive Description of the Geography, History, Commerce, Trade, Government, and Religion of the British Empire "Britannia needs no bulwarks, No towers along the steep; Her march is o'er the mountain wave, Her home is on the deep." - "Ye Mariners of England." - Thomas Campbell. "A land of settled government, A land of just and old renown, Where freedom broadens slowly down, From precedent to precedent." - Lyric, "You ask me why, etc." - Lord Tennyson. "This royal throne of kings, this sceptr'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise; This fortress, built by Nature for herself, Against infection and the hand of war; This happy breed of men, this little world; This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall, Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England.

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