 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
 | John Milton - 1857 - 664 pages
...extravagant and even ridiculous length hy Huetius and Gale. — Wartmrton. But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching...civil government, In their majestic, unaffected style, Thau all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1858 - 544 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...learnt What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so." Par. Reg. B. r». and functionaries of the reserved nationalty, as the main cause of the comparatively... | |
 | William Hanna - 1858 - 390 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...government, In their majestic unaffected style, Than all the orators of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt. What makes a nation happy,... | |
 | Leroy Jones Halsey - Bible as literature - 1859 - 448 pages
...them in one of these departments, is true of them and of their fellow teachers, in all the rest. " As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid...easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy and keeps it-so." In physical science, which, as we have seen, the Bible does not profess to teach, although... | |
 | Charles Knight - Capitalism - 1859 - 526 pages
...of all the community. Princes and statesmen, prelates and philosophers, were equally ignorant of " What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so ; What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat." It was enough for them to consume ; they thought it beneath them to observe even, much less to assist... | |
 | John Milton - 1860 - 424 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...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 - English poetry - 1860 - 574 pages
...of eloquence; statists indeed, And lovers of their country, ns may seem But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching...and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest leaml, What makes a nation happy, and keeps \lto, What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat: These... | |
 | Samuel Ware Fisher - Bible - 1860 - 570 pages
...revolutions. John Milton was right when he said of the authors of the New Testament, that they were " Men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid...In their majestic, unaffected style, Than all the orators of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy,... | |
 | John Milton - English poetry - 1861 - 734 pages
...eloquence ; statists 1 indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching...unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. seo In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, What... | |
 | John Milton - Fall of man - 1861 - 534 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...unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Eome. 360 In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so,... | |
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