 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...  The Retrospective Review - Page 181824Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | Dublin city, univ - 1868 - 360 pages
...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, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pages
...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...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... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 pages
...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 f to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - 1870 - 550 pages
...could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge, — a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and...point the highest that human capacity can soar to? What wants there. to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful laborers, to make a knowing... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 382 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 356 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - 1870 - 548 pages
...could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge, — a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick', ingenious, and piercing spirit, acnte to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach of any point the highest that... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1872 - 558 pages
...The words are English as before; but the signification is foreign to the understanding of " a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and...point the highest that human capacity can soar to."* But the English nation is, I venture to declare, beueath the reach of the height that Dr. Bain has... | |
 | Christopher Hill - 1982 - 308 pages
...thought-control would liberate men's energies and lead to a great intellectual leap forward. 'A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. ... Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a.strong man after sleep... | |
 | Robert Martin Adams - 1983 - 646 pages
...or so inhabitants. Not for nothing did Milton describe his countrymen in "Areopagitica" as a nation not slow and dull but of a quick, ingenious and piercing...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to. The importance of the Stuart court to England's cultural life in the early century is hard to overstate.... | |
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