 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 pages
...writers of all ages, and especially in our own country ; " a nation," as Milton has 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 any point, the highest that human capacity... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 pages
...UNITED KINGDOM, BY ONE OF THE PEOPLE. " Lords and Commons of England, consider what a Nation it is whereof ye are the Governors : a Nation not slow and...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... | |
 | 1822 - 576 pages
...Commons of England, consider what a Nation it is whereof ye are the Governors: 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... | |
 | 1824 - 408 pages
...writers of all ages, and especially in our own country ; " a nation," as Milton has 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 any point, the highest that human capacity... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...a church, not the forced and outward union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly-divided minds. Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is...ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity... | |
 | 1824 - 408 pages
...writers of all ages, and especially in our own country ; " a nation," as Milton has 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 any point, the highest that human capacity... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1825 - 728 pages
...his poetry — Milton, in speaking of the English nation, and addressing its rulers, said, " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit; acute to... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...a church ; not the forced and outward union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds. Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is...ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds. Lords and commons of England ! consider what j nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the...ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle i and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of! any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | 1826 - 860 pages
...Lords and Commons of England ! Consider what nation it n whereof ye are the governors : a nation nut slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing...invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath Ihe reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to." Such a nation was Ireland. Hebesought... | |
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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... 
