 | James Mercer Garnett - 1890 - 730 pagina’s
...UNLICENC'D PRINTING, TO THE PARLAMENT OF ENGLAND. [Written in 1644.] LORDS and Commons of England, 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, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to... | |
 | Sir Walter Besant - 1891 - 482 pagina’s
...again, before this passage, remember that noble flight : " 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,... | |
 | Thomas Rosling Howlett - 1892 - 294 pagina’s
...people.' " Still more notable are the words of Milton: — " 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,... | |
 | Andrew Reid - 1895 - 332 pagina’s
...of the best. I speak for them in the words of Milton- — " 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,... | |
 | 1896 - 324 pagina’s
...passage is extracted from this pamphlet.] A VISION OF ENGLAND. 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,... | |
 | Jules Vodoz - 1895 - 130 pagina’s
...commonwealth wherein he was born. In a hand scars legible whereof three pages would not down. Consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the go vernours. A vertue whereof none can participate but greatest and wisest men. The order would be... | |
 | Thomas Rosling Howlett - 1896 - 316 pagina’s
...people.' " 32 Still more notable are the words of Milton: — " 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,... | |
 | Ernest Rhys - 1897 - 284 pagina’s
...outward union of cold, and neutrall, and inwardly divided minds. Lords and Commons of England, 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, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to... | |
 | Longman (Firm) - 1897 - 296 pagina’s
...printing, from which a single passage may be extracted : — " 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,... | |
 | James Mercer Garnett - 1899 - 728 pagina’s
...UNLICENC'D PRINTING, TO THE PARLAMENT OF ENGLAND. [Written in 1644.] LORDS and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the govemours : a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent,... | |
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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... 
