| Louis Lohr Martz - Poetry - 1986 - 388 pages
...Commons of England, consider what Nation it is wherof ye are, and wherof ye are the governours: a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can... | |
| Thomas N. Corns - History - 1987 - 192 pages
...Commons of England, consider what Nation it is wherof ye are, and wherof ye are the governours: a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can... | |
| Jeffery A. Smith - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1990 - 246 pages
...to be "of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to." Milton traced censorship back to Roman despots and popes and represented the licensing procedure as... | |
| Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.) - Political Science - 1991 - 84 pages
...and Philip Spender. I^ord and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are: a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit. It must not be shackled or restricted. Give me die liberty to know, to utter and to argue freely according... | |
| Liah Greenfeld - History - 1992 - 600 pages
...Areopagitica: "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, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can... | |
| Robert Andrews - Reference - 1993 - 1214 pages
...Commoners of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors; a nation n masters if they are not submissive to the Deity?...Democracy in America, vol. 1 , ch. 17(1 835). 31 It w JOHN MILTON (1 608-74). English poet. Areopagilica: a Speech for the liberty of Unlicensed Priming... | |
| Paul M. Dowling - Literary Collections - 1995 - 160 pages
...request to contemplate the nation, Milton eulogizes its intellectual capacities. This is "a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and...discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest human capacity can soar to" (II, 551). This is praise indeed. However, immediately following are testimonies... | |
| Richard D. Brown - History - 1996 - 280 pages
..."Lords and Commons of England, [to] consider what nation . . . 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 in discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
| Eric Voegelin - Philosophy - 1999 - 332 pages
...Commons of England, consider what Nation it is wherof ye are, and wherof Ye are the governours: a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can... | |
| Ewen Green - Great Britain - 1998 - 968 pages
...of England, consider what Nati on 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 diseourse, not oeneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. . . . —... | |
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