 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 strani
...shall never be forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish. ENGLAND AND LONDON. Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation...ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | 1858 - 740 strani
...progress and utility. We are indeed, as Milton said of us long since, "a right honest, right hardy nation; not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ;" a maid, serious, religious people, but yet material. Materialism is the bent of the national. mind.... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 770 strani
...Schisms and Sects, and make it such a calamity that any man dissents from //«•/,- maxims. . . . Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation...quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | 1860 - 806 strani
...exhuberauce of language. Milton's description of the English people has not been inaptly applied to him — " Not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and...sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to." In private life he was deservedly esteemed for the purity... | |
 | Ernest Adams - 1862 - 310 strani
...the very pleasing, modest way he has taken to do it in. — Jeffrey. Lords and Commons of England 1 consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof...sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point thai, human capacity can soar to. — Milton. 649. The preposition of, expressing the partitive genitive,... | |
 | Sir George Young - 1862 - 120 strani
...most of the qualities that have given a permanent reputation to its name. For " this our nation is 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 any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 strani
...shall never be forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish. ENGLAND AND LONDON. Lords and Commons of England! consider what nation...quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach. of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 strani
...deliverance, as shall never be forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish. Lords and Commons of England! consider what nation...ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | Christopher Hill - 1982 - 308 strani
...abolition of thought-control would liberate men's energies and lead to a great intellectual leap forward. '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 any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | Robert Martin Adams - 1983 - 646 strani
...million or so inhabitants. Not for nothing did Milton describe his countrymen in "Areopagitica" as 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 any point, the highest that human capacity... | |
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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... 
