| Algernon Sidney - 1805 - 522 páginas
...and Commons of England, 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 discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 páginas
...and neutral, and inwardly divided minds. Lords and commons of England ! confider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not flow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing fpirit ; acute to invent, fubtile and fihewy... | |
| John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 440 páginas
...and neutral, and inwardly divided minds. Lords and commons of England ! confider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not flow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing fpirit ; acute to invent, fubtile and linewy... | |
| Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 páginas
...MILTON. [Concluded from p. 176.] Lords and Commons of England ! Consider what nation it is whereof' we are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, hut of a quick, ingenuous, ami piercing spirit ; acute to invent, suhtile and sinewy to discourse,... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 534 páginas
...and neutral, and inwardly divided minds. Lards and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors :...ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any .point the highest that human capacity... | |
| 1848 - 752 páginas
...Hamilton may he truly applied the well-known description given by Milton of the English people — ' 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... | |
| John Milton - 1819 - 464 páginas
...and 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... | |
| Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 páginas
...writers of all ages, and especially in our own country ; " a nation," as Milton has described it, " not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing...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... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 páginas
...UNITED KINGDOM, BY ONE OF THE PEOPLE. " Lords and Commons of England, consider what a Nation it is whereof ye are the Governors : a Nation not slow and...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... | |
| 1822 - 576 páginas
...Commons of England, consider what a 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, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any, point the highest that human capacity... | |
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