 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
 | Perez Zagorin - Religious tolerance - 2003 - 398 pages
...governed, of its keen intelligence and piercing spirit, "acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to." His country, he exulted, had cast off the old skin of corruption and become young again, entering "the... | |
 | Joseph Bizup - Business & Economics - 2003 - 260 pages
...percent, a figure that moves him to echo Milton's "stirring" praise of the English people as "a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit" (60). In these ways, Cooke Taylor links the factory system to the cause of progress while simultaneously... | |
 | Andrew King, John Plunkett - Popular literature - 2004 - 544 pages
...that they are fully entitled to the praise which Milton bestowed upon their forefathers, as "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... | |
 | Joel Garreau - Science - 2005 - 412 pages
...Commons of England, consider what Nation it is whereof we 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." In such fashion did Milton seek to reconcile the enduring problems of individual freedom and public... | |
 | Jeremy J. Smith - Foreign Language Study - 2005 - 268 pages
...Commons of England, consider what Nation it is wherof ye are, and wherof ye are the governours: a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can... | |
 | Freeman Dyson - Science - 2006 - 396 pages
...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...point the highest that human capacity can soar to — Nor is it for nothing that the grave and frugal Transylvanian sends out yearly from as far as the... | |
 | Grace Tiffany - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 236 pages
...Thus in Areopagitica he addresses his exhortations regarding wide reading and disputing to "a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and...any point the highest that human capacity can soar to."'w He is a member of this nation, but one who, by special dispensation, speaks from the place of... | |
 | John Milton - Philosophy - 2006 - 102 pages
...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...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 2006 - 78 pages
...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...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among... | |
 | John McCormick, Mairi MacInnes - Political Science - 2006 - 400 pages
...Commons of England, consider what Nation it is wherof ye are, and wherof ye are the governours: a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can... | |
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