 | Algernon Sidney - Monarchy - 1805 - 522 pages
...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. Therefore the studies of learning in their deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity,... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...piercing spirit ; acute to invent, suhtile and sinewy to discourse, not heneath the reach of any peint the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore...the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have heen so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and ahle judgment have heen... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Missions - 1848 - 752 pages
...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 memory which seemed to retain all that he ever read or heard, furnished an inexhaustible storehouse... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 484 pages
...quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to in" vent, subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach " of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to." Montesquieu has dedicated more than one Book of his work on Laws to the effects of Climate upon the... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to3. Therefore the studies of Learning in her deepest Sciences have bin so ancient, and so eminent... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - English literature - 1824 - 408 pages
...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." We are not sufficiently dogmatical to believe that our peculiar notions should regulate all the rest... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...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. But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter, we are become, hitherto, the... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 pages
...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." We are not sufficiently dogmatical to believe that our peculiar notions should regulate all the rest... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...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... | |
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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... 
