 Their orators thou then extoll'st, as those The top 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 The solid rules of civil government, In their...  The English Journal of Education - Page 3201847Full view - About this book
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - 1850 - 408 pages
...nothing' for the instruction of princes to be supplied by any source independent of Catholicism, in which is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, what makes a nation happy, and what keeps it so. But it is not alone piety, useful thus to government as to all things, that Catholicism... | |
 | James McFarlane Mathews - Bible - 1851 - 286 pages
...describes them as "Statists indeed; And lovers of their country, as may seem ; But herein to our prophets, far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching...learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so." As we endeavor to show in another place, there is nothing in which the Greeks and Romans were distinguished... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge - Church and state - 1852 - 304 pages
...have given additional strength and fresh force to our sage poet's eulogy on the Jewish Prophets ; — As men divinely taught and better teaching The solid...keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms and lays cities flat. PAR. REG. iv. 354. If there be any antidote to that restless craving for the wonders of the day, which,... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Derwent Coleridge - Philosophy and religion - 1852 - 300 pages
...have given additional strength and fresh force to our sage poet's eulogy on the Jewish Prophets;— As men divinely taught and better teaching The solid...keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms and lays cities flat. PAH. REQ. iv. 354. If there be any antidote to that restless craving for the wonders of the day, which,... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...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...the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest tanght, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so,— What ruins kingdoms, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 424 pages
...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 The solid rules of civil government, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes... | |
 | English poetry - 1852 - 874 pages
...eloquence ; statists indeed. And lovers of their country, as may srem ; But herein to our prophets cg 𬍕 J b ?n x 3 m _ < > K O 5 M ' 3 ) H ٦ /Wp goverement, In their majestic unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...eloquence ; statists l indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching...cities flat ; These only with our law best form a king. So spake the Son of God ; but Satan, now Quite at a loss (for all his darts were spent), Thus to our... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...eloquence ; statists1 indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching...cities flat ; These only with our law best form a king. So spake the Son of God ; but Satan, now Quite at a loss (for all his darts were spent), Thus to our... | |
 | Enoch Cobb Wines - Jewish law - 1853 - 672 pages
...eloquence ; — statists, indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; Cut herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching...it so. What ruins kingdoms and lays cities flat/' Nobly said, and truthfully too ! The prophetical writings abound with the finest lessons of political... | |
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