 Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach...  Oliver Cromwell: An Historical Romance - Page 38de Henry William Herbert - 1840 - 360 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Algernon Sidney - 1805 - 522 pages
...A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in their deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit....point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among... | |
 | 1848 - 752 pages
...applied the well-known description given by Milton of the English people — ' A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit...point the highest that human capacity can soar to.' A memory which seemed to retain all that he ever read or heard, furnished an inexhaustible storehouse... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 pages
...dull, but of. a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to3. Therefore the studies of Learning in her deepest Sciences have bin so ancient, and so eminent... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 pages
...described it, " not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to." We are not sufficiently dogmatical to believe that our peculiar notions should regulate all the rest... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 pages
...a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter, we are become, hitherto, the... | |
 | 1822 - 576 pages
...a Nation not slow'and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any, point the highest that human capacity can'soar to. But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter, we are become,... | |
 | 1824 - 408 pages
...described it, " not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to." We are not sufficiently dogmatical to believe that our peculiar notions should regulate all the rest... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1825 - 728 pages
...a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to." Such a nation did he (lord L.) think Ireland was. He besought the House to remember, that over this... | |
 | 1824 - 408 pages
...described it, " not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to." We are not sufficiently dogmatical to believe that our peculiar notions should regulate all the rest... | |
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