 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1899 - 470 pages
...mild, and free, and humane government; it is the liberty, lords and commons, which your own valorous and happy counsels have purchased us, — liberty...the nurse of all great wits; this is that which hath rarefied and enlightened our spirits like the influence of heaven; this is that which hath enfranchised,... | |
 | Francis Warre Cornish - Literature - 1900 - 604 pages
...mild and free and human government ; it is the liberty, Lords and Commons, which your own valorous and happy counsels have purchased us, liberty which...apprehensions degrees above themselves. Ye cannot now make us less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves,... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 462 pages
...have purchased us, — liberty which is the nurse of all great wits; this is that which hath rarefied and enlightened our spirits like the influence of...less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 422 pages
...have purchased us, liberty which is the nurse of all great wits; 10 this is that which hath rarefied and enlightened our spirits like the influence of...less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth, unless ye first 15 make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders,... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1905 - 224 pages
...cause. anjj free and humane government. It is the liberty, Lords and Commons, which your own valorous and happy counsels have purchased us, Liberty which...the nurse of all great wits: this is that which hath rarefied and enlightened our splrtts~iifce~ the influence of Heaven ; this is that which hath enfranchised,... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - Digital images - 1905 - 426 pages
...mild and free and humane government: it is the liberty, Lords and Commons, which your own valorous and happy counsels have purchased us, liberty which is the nurse of all great wits; 10 this is that which hath rarefied and enlightened our spirits like the influence of heaven; this... | |
 | William Jennings Bryan, Francis Whiting Halsey - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1906 - 292 pages
...mild and free and humane government. It is the liberty, lords and commons, which your own valorous and happy counsels have purchased us, liberty which...nurse of all great wits ; this is that which hath rarefied and enlightened our spirits like the influence of heaven ; this is that which hath enfranchised,... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - English prose literature - 1907 - 112 pages
...mild, and free, and humane government ; it is the liberty, Lords and Commons, which your own valorous and happy counsels have purchased us, liberty which...is the nurse of all great wits ; this is that which has rarefied and enlightened our spirits like the influence of heaven ; this is that which hath enfranchised,... | |
 | Thomas Paine, Thomas Clio Rickman - 1908 - 476 pages
...mild, and free, and humane government. It is the liberty, Lords and Commons, which your own valorous and happy counsels have purchased us; liberty, which...the nurse of all great wits. This is that which hath rarefied and enlightened our spirits like the influence of Heaven. This is that which hath enfranchised,... | |
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If it be desired to know the immediate cause of all this free writing and free speaking, there cannot be assigned a truer than your own mild and free and humane government; it is the liberty, Lords and Commons... 
