 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, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach...  La pensée de Milton - Page 85de Denis Saurat - 1920 - 363 pagesAffichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
 | 1856 - 730 pages
...but shall conclude with a pertinent hint from the writings of one of its master-minds : — " LoBDS AND COMMONS OF ENGLAND, consider what nation it is whereof ye are — a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle... | |
 | 1857 - 670 pages
...MECHANICS' MAGAZINE. JULY 4тн — DECEMBER 26тн, 1857. EDITED BY RA BROOMAN & EJ REED. VOL. LXVII. " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation...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 - 1848 - 786 pages
...shall 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...of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute 10 invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human... | |
 | 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
...shall 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...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...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... | |
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