 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...  Hints and Cautions on Attic Greek Prose Composition - Seite 115von Francis St. John Thackeray - 1876 - 157 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Algernon Sidney - 1805 - 522 Seiten
...knew.) branches, beyond any man I ever knew. He had a particular way of insinuating himself into people, Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation...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... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 Seiten
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 Seiten
...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 reach of any .point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | 1848 - 752 Seiten
...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, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 484 Seiten
...divided minds. Lords and Commons of England ! consider what Nation it is wherof ye are, and wherof ye are the governours : a Nation not slow and dull,...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 Seiten
...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 iu" vent, subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach " of any point the highest that human... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 Seiten
...writers of 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...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 Seiten
...PEOPLE. " Lords and Commons of England, consider what a Nation it is whereof ye are the Governors : 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... | |
 | 1822 - 576 Seiten
...Commons of England, consider what a Nation it is whereof ye are the Governors: 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... | |
 | 1824 - 408 Seiten
...writers of 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...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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