 | American Medical Association - 1850 - Počet stránok 516
...could with no less truth address them to our own : — to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any 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... | |
 | Patrick Joseph Murray - 1854 - Počet stránok 158
...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 that human capacity can soar to."— MILTON. THE AEEOFAGITICA. Reprinted, with additions, from The Irish Quarterly Review, JVo. 15, September,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - Počet stránok 800
...dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that...the 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... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1896 - Počet stránok 466
...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 can soar to ! ' A nation not luxurious nor effeminate, but of a hardihood surpassing that, I say not of the frivolous,... | |
 | 1856 - Počet stránok 730
...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 can soar to." — Milton. The Terrace, Barnes. BOLTON CORNET. GEOEOE WHETSTONES WOKKS. On the back of the title-page... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - Počet stránok 516
...dull, but of a quick, ingenious, piercing spirit; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to Now once again, by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1856 - Počet stránok 460
...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 can soar to ! ' A nation not luxurious nor effeminate, but of a hardihood surpassing that, I say not of the frivolous,... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1848 - Počet stránok 786
...dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute 10 invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that...the 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... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1857 - Počet stránok 642
...dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to." — MILTON. "If we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall... | |
 | 1857 - Počet stránok 648
...of <a «qtilcfc*, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to." — MILTON. "If we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall... | |
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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... 
