 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...  Knight's Penny Magazine - Page 2321846Full view - About this book
 | 1842 - 602 pages
...« not slow and dull, but of a quick, « ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent , subtle and « sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach...point the « highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the « studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so an« cient and so eminent... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Factory system - 1842 - 346 pages
...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 of...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towaidly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Factory system - 1842 - 312 pages
..." ingenious, and piercing spirit : acute to invent, sub" tie and sinewy to discourse ; not benenth the reach " of any point the highest that human capacity can " soar to. What wants there to such a towardly " and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers " to make... | |
 | 1843 - 948 pages
...nation it is whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. . . . What wants there to such towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make... | |
 | LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS - 1844 - 652 pages
...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 of any point the highest that human capa' city can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and ' pregnant soil, but wise and faithful... | |
 | 1844 - 702 pages
...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 of any point the highest that human capa' city can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and ' pregnant soil, but wise and faithful... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subfile 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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...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 reach of any point that human capacity can soar to. Methinks 1 see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...not slow and dulf7T>ut~oT a 'quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile aijd sinewy "to discourse, not beneath the reach of any...point the highest that human capacity .can soar to. Tbaccfi^re the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 568 pages
...ye jare, 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...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... | |
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