 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 páginas
...consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and d ull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute...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... | |
 | Richard Vickerman Taylor - 1865 - 552 páginas
...author's richest and most delightful compositions. The following has not been inaptly applied to him. " 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... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 766 páginas
...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...point the highest that human capacity can soar to." Here, doubtless, in due time, will be found works of the deepest philosophy and science; and, until... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 756 páginas
...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... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 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 7to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1868 - 360 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 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 f to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity... | |
 | Christopher Hill - 1982 - 308 páginas
...thought-control would liberate men's energies and lead to a great intellectual leap forward. 'A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. ... Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a.strong man after sleep... | |
 | Robert Martin Adams - 1983 - 646 páginas
...or so inhabitants. Not for nothing did Milton describe his countrymen in "Areopagitica" as a nation not slow and dull but of a quick, ingenious and piercing...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to. The importance of the Stuart court to England's cultural life in the early century is hard to overstate.... | |
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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... 
