 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, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the...  Progressive Readings in Prose - Strana 141úprava: - 1923 - Počet stránok 376Úplné zobrazenie - O tejto knihe
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - Počet stránok 784
...shall never be forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish. ENGLAND AND LONDON. Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation...whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and d ull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse,... | |
 | Richard Vickerman Taylor - 1865 - Počet stránok 552
...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... | |
 | 1866 - Počet stránok 492
...Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licences thought. Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are the governors ; a nation not slow and dull, but of quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, . . . not... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - Počet stránok 756
...degenerate offspring of a race, which John Milton so nobly and so justly characterized, when he said, — " Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation...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 - Počet stránok 458
...cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds. II. — AN EAGER SPIRIT OF INQUIRY AWAKE IN ENGLAND. Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation...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 - Počet stránok 360
...weep;—0, fool, I shall go inad! Translate the following passage into Latin Prose :— SttAKSI'EABK. Lords and Commons of England! consider what nation...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... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - Počet stránok 416
...employed without expressing surprise or command, merely for varying the effect of intonation. Examples. " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation...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... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - 1870 - Počet stránok 548
...Milton, " what could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge, — a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick', ingenious, and piercing spirit, acnte to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach of any point the highest that... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1871 - Počet stránok 422
...employed without expressing surprise or command, merely for varying the effect of intonation. Examples. " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation...the governors ; a nation not slow and dull, but of n quick, ingenious and piercing spirit ; acute 184 ELOCUTION. to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse,... | |
 | 1872 - Počet stránok 556
...deliverance, as shall never be forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish. Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation...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... | |
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