| William Hendry Stowell - 1850 - 524 páginas
...may be truly applied the wellknown 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 andsinewyto discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity... | |
| American Medical Association - 1850 - 516 páginas
...of England! consider what a 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 VOL. III. — 13 to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the... | |
| Charles V. Kraitsir - 1852 - 252 páginas
...Ye are, and whereof Ye are the governors. A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious anil piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy...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... | |
| 1852 - 790 páginas
...edueated elasses of England are still what they were described by Milton — " a 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 any point that human eapacity ean soar to."... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 páginas
...of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are governors, — a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ;" he reminds them of the ancient capacities of the inhabitants of this land; that Pythagoras and the... | |
| Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - 378 páginas
...Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are the governors ; a nation, not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and...sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to. * * * Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation, rousing... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 páginas
...of England ! consider what nation it ia whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and...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... | |
| Patrick Joseph Murray - 1854 - 158 páginas
...of England ! consider what nation it is whei eof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a 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 any point the highest... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...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...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... | |
| Half hours - 1856 - 444 páginas
...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...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... | |
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