 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 Analyst: A Quarterly Journal of Science, Literature, Natural History ... - Page 404edited by - 1840Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1847 - 568 pages
...in a church ; not the forced and outward union, of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds. I Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye jare, and whereof ye are the governors ; a nation not slow and dull, but of a ;quick, ingenious, and... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...harmony in a church; not the forced and outward union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds. , 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1849 - 708 pages
...deliverance, as ehall never be forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish. implore to write to you. With a fa la, Ja, la, la. For though the and whereof ye are the governors ; a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing... | |
 | American Medical Association - Electronic journals - 1850 - 516 pages
...them to our own: — "Lords and Commons of 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 piercing spirit; acute VOL. III. — 13 to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the... | |
 | William Hendry Stowell - Congregationalists - 1850 - 524 pages
...Hamilton may be truly applied the wellknown description given by Milton of the English people — ' a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit: acute to invent, subtile andsinewyto discourse, not beneath the reach of any point,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...nevertheless I took it as a pledge of future happiness that other nations were so persuaded of her liberty." " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation...not slow and dull, but of, a quick, ingenious, and pressing spirit, acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point... | |
 | Charles V. Kraitsir - English language - 1852 - 252 pages
...II. ENGLISH LANGUAGE. " 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 anil piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...unworthy of England and Englishmen : with a noble and expressive but respectful indignation, he says, " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are governors, — a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing... | |
 | Patrick Joseph Murray - England - 1854 - 158 pages
...BARRISTER-AT-LAW. tl Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is whei eof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; aente to invent, aubtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...Giles's, Cripplegate.] Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof yc are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piereing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point... | |
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