 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1857 - 642 pages
...DECEMBER 26тн, 1857. EDITED BY RA BROOMAN & E. /. REED. VOL. .дан. " Lord? and Commons of England I consider what nation It is whereof ye are, and whereof...ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1857 - 374 pages
...so persuaded of her liberty." " * * * * " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are the governors ; a nation, not slow...quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to.... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1857 - 560 pages
...With these materials of knowledge, such Chained Bible. a people would Le educating itself to become "a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse." t Some of the books which belonged to this early age of English printing... | |
 | 1857 - 648 pages
...*«- '". Д ;-. ". ' " Lords and Common« of England ! consider what tùtioa It-n -jrJrereOi ye tfre, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of <a «qtilcfc*, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 pages
...never be forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish. ENGLAND AND LONDON. 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... | |
 | 1858 - 740 pages
...progress and utility. We are indeed, as Milton said of us long since, "a right honest, right hardy nation; not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ;" a maid, serious, religious people, but yet material. Materialism is the bent of the national. mind.... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 770 pages
...Schisms and Sects, and make it such a calamity that any man dissents from //«•/,- maxims. . . . Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1859 - 780 pages
...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...Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest .sciences hare been so ancient and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and able judgment have... | |
 | 1860 - 806 pages
...exhuberauce of language. Milton's description of the English people has not been inaptly applied to him — " Not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and...point the highest that human capacity can soar to." In private life he was deservedly esteemed for the purity of his character, and for the warmth and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1860 - 778 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...Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences hare been so ancient and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and able judgment have... | |
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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... 
