 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - 378 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,...sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to. * * * Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation, rousing... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pages
...consider what nation it ia whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit...reach of any point the highest that human capacity can scar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient and so eminent... | |
 | Patrick Joseph Murray - 1854 - 158 pages
...nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; aente to invent, aubtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point the highest that human capacity can soar to."— MILTON. THE AEEOFAGITICA. Reprinted, with additions, from The Irish Quarterly Review, JVo. 15, September,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 516 pages
...whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the teachers,—a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, piercing spirit; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy...point the highest that human capacity can soar to Now once again, by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1856 - 460 pages
...nation, not slow nor 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 nation not luxurious nor effeminate, but of a hardihood surpassing that, I say not of the frivolous,... | |
 | 1856 - 730 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." — Milton. The Terrace, Barnes. BOLTON CORNET. GEOEOE WHETSTONES WOKKS. On the back of the title-page... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1896 - 466 pages
...nation, not slow nor 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 nation not luxurious nor effeminate, but of a hardihood surpassing that, I say not of the frivolous,... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1857 - 642 pages
...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...point the highest that human capacity can soar to." — MILTON. "If we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall... | |
 | 1857 - 670 pages
...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...point the highest that human capacity can soar to." — MILTON. "If we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as welt as we can, long hereafter we shall... | |
 | 1857 - 648 pages
...-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,...point the highest that human capacity can soar to." — MILTON. "If we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall... | |
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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... 
