| Algernon Sidney - 1805 - 522 páginas
...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 any point the...can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in their deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity,... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 440 páginas
...can foar to. Therefore the ftudies of learning in her deepeft fciences have been fo ancient, and fo eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and able judgment have been perfuaded, that even the fchool of Pythagoras, and the Perfian wifdom, took beginning from the old... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 534 páginas
...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 school of Pythagoras, and the Persian wisdom, took beginning from the old philosophy of this island. And that wise and civil Roman, Julius Agricola,... | |
| Ralph Griffiths, George Edward Griffiths - 1811 - 570 páginas
...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 soar to *." in the whole circle of science, a stronger confirmation of his opinions than in the Calculus of... | |
| John Milton - 1819 - 492 páginas
...slow and dull, " but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to in" vent, subtle and sinewy to discourse; not beneath the reach " of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to." to count me not equall to any of those who had this priviledge, I would obtain to be thought not so... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 572 páginas
...slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle ' and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter, we are become, hitherto, the... | |
| George Walker - 1825 - 668 páginas
...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,...even the school of Pythagoras and the Persian wisdom took beginning from the old philosophy of this island. And that wise and civil Roman, Julius Agricola,... | |
| John Milton - 1826 - 368 páginas
...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...the school of Pythagoras, and the Persian wisdom, took beginning from the old philosophy of this island. And that wise and civil Roman, Julius Agricola,... | |
| 1824 - 408 páginas
...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 soar to." We are not sufficiently dogmatical to believe that our peculiar notions should regulate all the rest... | |
| 1826 - 860 páginas
...ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath tbe reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to." Such a nation was Ireland. He besought the house to remember, that owr ibn nation was exerted that... | |
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