 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 strani
...and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is wherof ye are, and wherof 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 discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1987 - 192 strani
...and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is wherof ye are, and wherof 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 discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can... | |
 | Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.) - 1991 - 84 strani
...Leah Levin, Richard Norton-Taylor, Andrew Puddephatt, Geoffrey Robertson and Philip Spender. I^ord and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are: a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit. It must not be shackled... | |
 | Geoffrey F. Nuttall - 1992 - 228 strani
...them was a rising nationalism of the kind which reaches its peak in Milton's Areopagitica (1644) : Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation...whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors: ... the favour and the love of Heaven, we have great argument to think in a peculiar manner propitious... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 600 strani
...the English to be the chosen people. He appealed to the Lords and Commons of England in Areopagitica: "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,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 strani
...Cliffs, a long narrative poem extolling Britain's resistance during World War II. 45 Lords and Commoners 0 subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 strani
...beleaguered Parliamentary army, the opening exhortation of that description should raise questions: "consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors." England's armies were in fact deciding on the field of battle what the nation was and who governed... | |
 | Richard D. Brown - 1996 - 280 strani
...national pride, Milton entreated the "Lords and Commons of England, [to] consider what nation . . . whereof ye are the governors: a nation not slow and...piercing spirit; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy in discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to."3' Milton's... | |
 | Eric Voegelin - 1999 - 332 strani
...and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is wherof ye are, and wherof 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 discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can... | |
 | Randall M. Miller, Harry S. Stout, Charles Reagan Wilson - 1998 - 437 strani
...turmoil. He sacralized not the nation at that point but the people, suggesting an ethnic dimension: "Lords and commons of England! consider what nation...sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that humanity can soar to." Milton could not resist a jibe, noting that the Romans had... | |
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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... 
