 | Sir Thomas Wyse - Education - 1836 - 578 pages
...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...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soile, but wise and Jaithfull laboureri to make a... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...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 reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | 1836 - 804 pages
...upon a sinking deck, • " A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, nnd piercing ipirit, }e c thu highest that human capacity can soar to." — Artopagilica. VOL. VIII. •* Or smooths his pillow... | |
 | Bolton Corney - English literature - 1838 - 276 pages
...to abroad. I bore in remembrance that Milton, at no auspicious period, had described our nation as " not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to ;" and could not but feel astonished at an attempt to estimate the intellectual spirit of the time... | |
 | Bolton CORNEY - 1838 - 280 pages
...to abroad. I bore in remembrance that Milton, at no auspicious period, had described our nation as " not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to ;" and could not but feel astonished at an attempt to estimate the intellectual spirit of the time... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 274 pages
...to abroad. I bore in remembrance that Milton, at no auspicious period, had described our nation as " not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to ;" and could not but feel astonished at an attempt to estimate the intellectual spirit of the time... | |
 | Bolton Corney - Literature - 1838 - 280 pages
...to abroad. I bore in remembrance that Milton, at IO auspicious period, had described our nation as " not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to ;" and could not but feel astonished at an attempt to estimate the intellectual spirit of the time... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...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...studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and able judgment have been persuaded... | |
 | Sarah Austin - Education - 1839 - 180 pages
...and Commons of England ! consider what nation ye are of, and whereof ye are the governors. A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to. . What could a man require from such a nation, so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What... | |
 | Science - 1830 - 1112 pages
...•whereof ye are the governors. A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and discerning spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse...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 a knowing... | |
| |
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... 
