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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... "
Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight - Page 18
by Half hours - 1847
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Discourses on Government, Volume 1

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...can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in their deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity,...
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Flower's Political review and monthly register. (monthly ..., Volume 9

Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...piercing spirit ; acute to invent, suhtile and sinewy to discourse, not heneath the reach of any peint the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore...the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have heen so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and ahle judgment have heen...
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Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, Volume 26

1848 - 752 pages
...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...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...
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Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of ...

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...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 9

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 pages
...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,...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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The Pamphleteer, Volume 19

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...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 19

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,...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 9

1824 - 408 pages
...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,...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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The Parliamentary Debates, Volume 12

Great Britain. Parliament - 1825 - 728 pages
...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;...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...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 9

1824 - 408 pages
...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,...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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