| John Milton - 1845 - 572 páginas
...not slow and dulf7T>ut~oT a 'quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile aijd sinewy "to discourse, not beneath the reach of any...point the highest that human capacity .can soar to. Tbaccfi^re the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 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 piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to.... | |
| John Milton - 1845 - 572 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 piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subfile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
| 1846 - 502 páginas
...nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, inquiring, 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." The British Newspaper Press has of late years done a great deal, a very great deal, to vindicate its... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 580 páginas
...Agonistes'in 1671. He died on the 8th of November, 1674, and was buried in St. Giles's, Cripplegate.] dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit;...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... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1847 - 712 páginas
...of England I consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors ; a nation rtier. An old song made by an aged old pate, Of an old worshipful subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to.... | |
| John Milton - 1848 - 566 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 piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
| 1844 - 454 páginas
...of England! consider what it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governor*: a nation not clow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing...invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse; not beneath any point, the highCat that human capacity can toar to. What waoli tbere, to such a towardly and pregnant... | |
| American Medical Association - 1850 - 516 páginas
...in our midst this day, he could with no less truth address them to our own : — to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to." In the American character almost every element which in Europe is reckoned to be national, is transfused... | |
| William Hendry Stowell - 1850 - 522 páginas
...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... | |
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