 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...  Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1852-1867 - Pagina 217door Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 637 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Algernon Sidney - 1805 - 522 pagina’s
...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. Therefore the studies of learning in their deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pagina’s
...harmony in a church ; not the forced and outward union of and neutral, and inwardly divided minds. Lards and commons of England ! consider what nation it is....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... | |
 | 1848 - 752 pagina’s
...Hamilton may he truly applied the well-known description given by Milton of the English people — ' A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious,...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 pagina’s
...described it, " not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...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... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1824 - 408 pagina’s
...described it, " not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...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... | |
 | 1824 - 408 pagina’s
...described it, " not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - 1825 - 728 pagina’s
...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 of...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... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pagina’s
...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 of...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... | |
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