 | 1830 - 484 strani
...virtue which they have inspired, are of inferior value when compared with the subjection of men :ni'I their rulers to the principles of justice • if,...the Great Charter breathed over their forefathers." We can find space for just one other, passage, which possesses, however, a peculiar interest for northern... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1830 - 414 strani
...her Mil tons and Newtons, with all the truth which they have revealed, and all the generous virtue which they have inspired, are of inferior value when...conspicuous among the military chiefs. The primate and the earl marshal, who long remained with the king, and performed, as much as he allowed them, a mediatorial... | |
 | 1831 - 616 strani
...Shakspeares, her Mutons and Newtons, with all the truth which they have revealed, and all the generous virtue which they have inspired, are of inferior value when...without the influence of that spirit which the Great Charier breathed over their forefathers. — Lardncr's Cyclopedia, vol. viii. TIME. Hast thou ne'er... | |
 | Samuel Drew - 1831 - 658 strani
...more true that these mighty spirits could not have liccn formed except under equal laws, nor mused to full activity without the influence of that spirit which the Great Charter brralht*! over their forefathers. — Lardiier's I't/rloftdiiif vol. viii. TIMB. Hast MOM ne'er hoard... | |
 | Alexander Hill Everett - 1834 - 68 strani
...Shakspeares, her Miltons and Newtons, with all the truth which they have revealed, and all the generous virtue which they have inspired, are of inferior value when...without the influence of that spirit which the great charier breathed over their forefathers." Until we read this review of the origin and character of... | |
 | George Crosby - 1847 - 424 strani
...of justice ; if, indeed, it be not more true that these mighty spirits could not have been fostered except under equal laws, nor roused to full activity without the influence of that spirit which the charter breathed over their forefathers. King John died two years after this great event, and Henry... | |
 | James Thorne - 1847 - 480 strani
...true that these mighty spirits could not have been formed except under equal laws, nor roused into full activity without the influence of that spirit...the Great Charter breathed over their forefathers." (Hist, of Eng. i. 221.) Runnemede is now used for a somewhat less important purpose than of old, though... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1848 - 82 strani
...SHAKESPEARES, her MILTONS and NEWTONS, with all the truth which they have revealed, and all the generous virtue which they have inspired, are of inferior value when...GREAT CHARTER breathed over their forefathers." It has been shown in the preceding pages that the thirteenth century saw the commencement of our nationality,... | |
 | Alfred Barry - 1848 - 374 strani
...principles of justice; if, indeed, it be not more true, that those mighty spirits could not have been formed nor roused to full activity, without the influence of that spirit which the great charter breathed into their forefathers." The reign of Elizabeth has been selected as a proof of the despotic character... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1848 - 76 strani
...spirits could not have ' been formed except under equal laws, nor roused to full activity with' out the influence of that spirit which the GREAT CHARTER breathed over their forefathers." It has been shown in the preceding pages that the thirteenth century saw the commencement of our nationality,... | |
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To have produced it, to have preserved it, to have matured it, constitute the immortal claim of England on the esteem of mankind. Her Bacons and Shakspeares, her Miltons and Newtons, with all the truth which they have revealed, and all the generous virtue... 
