 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...  The Mechanics' Magazine - Seite i1857Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Knight - 1857 - 560 Seiten
...Chained Bible. a people would Le educating itself to become "a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse." t Some of the books which belonged to this early age of English printing are still read with pleasure... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1858 - 780 Seiten
...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,...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient and so eminent among... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 770 Seiten
...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...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. ... Now once again, by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men,... | |
 | 1860 - 806 Seiten
...— " 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...point the highest that human capacity can soar to." In private life he was deservedly esteemed for the purity of his character, and for the warmth and... | |
 | Sir George Young - 1862 - 120 Seiten
...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...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore," says Milton, " the studies of learning in her deepest Sciences have bin so ancient and... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 Seiten
...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...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences hare been so ancient and so eminent among... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 Seiten
...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,...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient and so eminent among... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 Seiten
...is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and d ull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent,...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient and so eminent among... | |
 | Richard Vickerman Taylor - 1865 - 552 Seiten
...him. " 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...point the highest that human capacity can soar to."* In private life yea Do ear he published a small volume, entitled Pastoral Appeals on Personal, domestic,... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 766 Seiten
...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...point the highest that human capacity can soar to." Here, doubtless, in due time, will be found works of the deepest philosophy and science; and, until... | |
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