 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...  Essays, Civil and Moral and the New Atlantis - Σελίδα 222των Francis Bacon, John Milton, Sir Thomas Browne - 1909 - 332 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | William Hendry Stowell - 1850 - 522 σελίδες
...slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and picrring spirit: acute to invent, subtile and sine icy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to.' A memory which seemed to retain all that he ever read or heard, furnished an inexhaustible storehouse... | |
 | William Hendry Stowell - 1850 - 524 σελίδες
...slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit: acute to invent, subtile andsinewyto discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to.' A memory which seemed to retain all that he ever read or heard, furnished an inexhaustible storehouse... | |
 | Charles V. Kraitsir - 1852 - 252 σελίδες
...A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious anil piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so antient and so eminent among us, thai writers of good antiquity and ablest judges have been persuaded... | |
 | Patrick Joseph Murray - 1854 - 158 σελίδες
...nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; aente to invent, aubtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point the highest that human capacity can soar to."— MILTON. THE AEEOFAGITICA. Reprinted, with additions, from The Irish Quarterly Review, JVo. 15, September,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 σελίδες
...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 capacity can scar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient and so eminent... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 σελίδες
...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 of...eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and able judgment have been persuaded that even the school of Pythagoras and the Persian wisdom took beginning... | |
 | 1856 - 730 σελίδες
...a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to." — Milton. The Terrace, Barnes. BOLTON CORNET. GEOEOE WHETSTONES WOKKS. On the back of the title-page... | |
 | 1856 - 560 σελίδες
...— a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point the highest that human capacity can soar to Now once again, by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1896 - 466 σελίδες
...nation, not slow nor dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point the highest that human capacity can soar to ! ' A nation not luxurious nor effeminate, but of a hardihood surpassing that, I say not of the frivolous,... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1856 - 460 σελίδες
...nation, not slow nor dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point the highest that human capacity can soar to ! ' A nation not luxurious nor effeminate, but of a hardihood surpassing that, I say not of the frivolous,... | |
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