...Eloquence, Statists indeed, And lovers of thir Country, as may seem; But herein to our Prophets farr beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of Civil Government In thir majestic unaffected stile Then all the Oratory of Greece and Rome, In them is plainest taught,...

...compels, the adoption of whatever is ready . . . skipping over whole series of intermediate stages."4 (ii) In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so ... (Milton, Paradise Regained) The study of US historiography has generated work of immense subtlety...

...top of Eloquence, Statifts indeed, And lovers ofthir Country, as may seem; But herein to our Prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of Civil Government In thir majeslic unaffefted flile Then aU the Oratory of Greece and Rome. In them isplaineft taught, and...

...eloquence ; statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching...flat ; These only with our law best form a king." Do you think that their political philosophy was so instructive and important as he says ? Squire....

...romantic Tory originator, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. For his Lincoln accepted that "in it, as Milton sings, 'Is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, / What makes...so; / What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat!' " ([pp. 5-6]); and in believing this biblical lesson about the sovereignty of God in the affairs of...

...divmely raught, and hetrer reaching The solid rules of civil governmem In their majestic unaffecred style Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome: In them is plainest raught, and easiest learm, What makes a nauon happy, and keeps it so. What ruins kingdoms, and lays...

...it) Somebody told me. I forget who. 10. Parse the words italicized in the following : In them ' • plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps so, What ruins kingdoms, and'lays cities flat ; The.se only with our law best/o?-n( a king. MAY, 1892....

...of eloquence, statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching...government In their majestic unaffected style Than all the orators of Greece and Rome. (Paradise Regained 4.354-60) The Bible proves a better statesman's manual...

...statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem; But herein to our Prophets far beneath, The solid rules of civil government, In their majestic,...unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. 360 In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, What...

...Classical rhetors, together with Satan himself, are described as far below the prophets, the latter divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of Civil Government In thir majestic unaffected style Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught,...