 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
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 Seiten
...and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy 7to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studios of Learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient and so eminent among... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1868 - 360 Seiten
...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. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 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 have been so ancient and so eminent among... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 356 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... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - 1870 - 550 Seiten
...nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge, — 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? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful laborers, to make a knowing... | |
 | John Milton - 1870 - 382 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 have been so ancient, and so eminent among... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - 1870 - 548 Seiten
...after knowledge, — a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick', ingenious, and piercing spirit, acnte to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach of any point the highest that humau capacity can soar to? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful... | |
 | 1872 - 572 Seiten
...the signification is foreign to the understanding of " 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."* But the English nation is, I venture to declare, beneath the reach of the height that Dr. Bain has... | |
 | Thomas Nicholas - 1873 - 606 Seiten
...race which Milton has aptly described in his ^•Ircopagitica as " 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," etc. The doctrine of our essay being, that a good proportion, probably the larger part, of our nation... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 754 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,... | |
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