| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1805 - 424 pages
...rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. * Vide Biographia Britannica, vol. iii. Corrigenda prefixed. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay, Such as she...with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last. During the preparations for his departure, Dr. Berkeley entered into a marriage, on August J, 1728,... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1805 - 420 pages
...rage, The wisest heads and noblest hearts. * Vide Biographia Britannica, vol. iii. Corrigenda prefixed. Not such as Europe breeds in her decay, Such as she...with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last. During the preparations for his departure, Dr. Berkeley entered into a marriage, on August 1, 1728,... | |
| Liberalism (Religion) - 1813 - 802 pages
...and sense, The pedantry of courts and schools, he concludes with the following stanza, Westward the course of empire takes its way : The four first acts...with the day, Time's noblest offspring is the last. These verses, the only poetry attributed to Berkeley, were first published in a Miscellany which i... | |
| Jonathan Swift - 1814 - 512 pages
...men shall not impose for truth and sense, The pedantry of courts and schools. i There shall be snng another golden age, The rise of empire and of arts....with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last. •^ persuasions as will keep one of the first men in this kingdom for learning and virtue quiet at... | |
| Nathan Drake - English literature - 1814 - 404 pages
...The wisest heads and noblest hearts. * Vide Biographla Britannic*, vol. iu. Corrigenda prefixed. iNot such as Europe breeds in her decay, ' Such as she...with the day : Time's noblest offspring is the last, During the preparations for his departure, Dr. Berkeley entered into a marriage, on August 1, 1728,... | |
| Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 532 pages
...flame did animate her clay, By future poets shall be sung. Westward the course of empire takes it's way : The four first acts already past, A fifth shall...with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last.' * The very day before he sailed, in the midst of all his bustle, and with his whole soul on the stretch... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 576 pages
...poetic prediction of Bishop BERKELEY : : , " Westward the course of empire takes its way, " The tour first acts already past; " A fifth shall close the...the day : " Time's noblest offspring is the last. - ' This will be a mighty revolution, noi brought about by wars, by violence, by injustice, but one... | |
| Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1818 - 594 pages
.... !••.::. " Westward the course of empire takes its way, K • .•-• !> "The (bur first arts already past; .. . " A fifth shall close the drama...••• .• " Time's noblest offspring is the last." ..t This will be a mighty revolution, not brought about by wars, by violence, 'by injustice, but one... | |
| Henry Marie Brackenridge - Argentina - 1819 - 390 pages
...of bishop BERKELEY. "Westward the coarse of empire takes its way, The four first acts already pa*; A fifth shall close the drama with the day: Time's noblest offspring is the last." This will be a mighty revolution, not brought about by wars, by violence, by injustice; but one, in... | |
| George Berkeley - 1820 - 496 pages
...stars for ever and ever." VERSES, OH TH« PROSPECT OF PLANTING ARTS AND LEARNING IS AMERICA. VERSES, THE Muse, disgusted at an age and clime, Barren of...with the day ; Time's noblest offspring is the last. . A SERMON, PREACHED BEFORE THE PROPAGATION OF THE GOSPEL IN FOREIGN PARTS; AT THEIR ANNIVERSARY MEETING... | |
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