 | English authors - 1876 - 484 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,...eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and ablest judgment have been persuaded that even the school of Pythagoras and the Persian wisdom took... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...consider what Nation it is whereof ye arc, and whereof yo are the governors : a nation not slow and ;Ф ! ablest judgment have been persuaded that oven the school of Pythagoras, and the Persian wisdom took... | |
 | Francis St. John Thackeray - 1876 - 188 pages
...consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governours : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit,...to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest science have been so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and ablest judgement... | |
 | David Thomas - 1876 - 494 pages
...information as may serve to secure fuller enjoyment of some part of the mind of a people not ' slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit,...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to.' So Milton described his countrymen, and the reader of these volumes will see that he spoke truth."... | |
 | Henry Major - 1876 - 784 pages
...days ? not alow and dutt, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit; ; acnte to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to." — Milton, a. Who are meant by the Commons of England ? b. Give the sense of the above passage in... | |
 | 1878 - 446 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...Therefore, the studies of learning in her deepest science have been so ancient, and so eminent, among us, that writers of good antiquity and able judgement,... | |
 | Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh - 1878 - 412 pages
...entitled to the praise which Milton bestowed upon their forefathers, as being 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.' " During the last few years people have gone more out of doors and... | |
 | James De Mille - 1878 - 618 pages
...consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the guardians ; a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit...to discourse ; not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to." Milton exhibits in his prose works not only strictness and vigor... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 506 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!' — MlLTON. (a) Who are meant by the Commons of England ? (b) Give the sense of the above passage in... | |
 | William Swinton - 1880 - 694 pages
...nation not slow and dull, but of quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit; s acute to invent, subtile * and sinewy to discourse,* not beneath the reach of...antiquity and able judgment have been persuaded that s even the school of Pythagoras and the Persian wisdom took beginning from the old philosophy of this... | |
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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... 
