"itself free" menas
Hi, I appreciate all the helps I'm receiving here.
I would like to ask what "itself free" means that is a part of a quite old phrase from a sermon of a minister, Lyman beecher.
"Some nation, itself free, was needed, to blow the trumpet and hold up the light"
Thank you again.
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". Essentially it is saying that a free nation was needed; the "itself" phrasing probably is intended to link to the previous mention of civil liberty: for the people to be free, the country itself must be free.
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- Essentially it is saying that a free nation was needed; the "itself" phrasing probably is intended to link to the previous mention of civil liberty: for the people to be free, the country itself must be free.
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It means "Some nation, that was itself free, was needed, ...". Essentially it is saying that a free nation was needed; the "itself" phrasing probably is intended to link to the previous mention of civil liberty: for the people to be free, the country itself must be free.
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