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, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the... Education Reform - Page 445by Sir Thomas Wyse - 1836 - 553 pagesFull view - About this book
| John Wallis - English language - 1765 - 338 pages
.../b I ^ O jl i - ' т.- т « », • l .. l >• . W t** и Lords and Commons of England, confider what Nation it is whereof Ye are, and whereof Ye are the Governours. A Nation not flow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing fpirit, acute to invent,... | |
| Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 444 pages
...outward union of cold, and neutrall, and inwardly divided minds. Lords and Commons of England, contfder what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governours : a Nation not flow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing fpirit, acute to invent,... | |
| Francis Blackburne - Education - 1780 - 408 pages
...outward union of cold, and neutrall, and inwardly divided minds. Lords and Commons of England, confider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governours : a Nation not flow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing fpirit, acute "to... | |
| Algernon Sidney - Monarchy - 1805 - 522 pages
...knew.) branches, beyond any man I ever knew. He had a particular way of insinuating himself into people, Lords and Commons of England, 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,... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 440 pages
...outward union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds. Lords and commons of England ! confider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not flow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing fpirit ; acute to invent, fubtile and linewy... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...outward union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds. Lords and commons of England ! confider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not flow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing fpirit ; acute to invent, fubtile and fihewy... | |
| Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...MILTON. [Concluded from p. 176.] Lords and Commons of England ! Consider what nation it is whereof' we are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, hut of a quick, ingenuous, ami piercing spirit ; acute to invent, suhtile and sinewy to discourse,... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...harmony in a church ; not the forced and outward union of and neutral, and inwardly divided minds. Lards and commons of England ! consider what nation it is...ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any .point the highest that human capacity... | |
| Missions - 1848 - 752 pages
...Hamilton may he truly applied the well-known description given by Milton of the English people — ' 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 any point the highest that human capacity... | |
| John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 484 pages
...he beseeches the Parliament to beware of what they do by placing the Press under an Imprimatur — " Lords and Commons of " England ! consider what Nation...a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to in" vent, subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach " of any point the highest that human... | |
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