 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...  The Retrospective Review - Page 181824Full view - About this book
 | William Cooke Taylor - Civilization - 1841 - 348 pages
...England ! consider what a nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers to make a knowing... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Factory system - 1842 - 346 pages
...Commons of England ! consider what it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towaidly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing... | |
 | 1842 - 602 pages
...imitated in Great Britain; « a Nation, » to use the magnificent language of England's great Poet, « not slow and dull, but of a quick, « ingenious, and...point the « highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the « studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so an« cient and so eminent... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Factory system - 1842 - 312 pages
...Commons of England ! consider what " it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the govern" ors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick , " ingenious, and piercing spirit : acute to invent, sub" tie and sinewy to discourse ; not benenth the reach " of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | 1843 - 948 pages
...Lords and Commons of England 1 consider what a nation it is whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a 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... | |
 | LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS - 1844 - 652 pages
...of England, consider what * nation whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors ; — a ' nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and...beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capa' city can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and ' pregnant soil, but wise and faithful... | |
 | 1844 - 702 pages
...of England, consider what 4 nation whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors ; — a ' nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and...beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capa' city can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and ' pregnant soil, but wise and faithful... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...not slow and dulf7T>ut~oT a 'quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile aijd sinewy "to discourse, not beneath the reach of any...point the highest that human capacity .can soar to. Tbaccfi^re the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...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, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to.... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...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, subfile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
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