| Sir Thomas Wyse - Education - 1836 - 578 pages
...quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soile, but wise and Jaithfull laboureri to make a... | |
| English literature - 1838 - 274 pages
...bore in remembrance that Milton, at no auspicious period, had described our nation as " not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to ;" and could not but feel astonished at an attempt to estimate the intellectual spirit of the time... | |
| Bolton CORNEY - 1838 - 280 pages
...bore in remembrance that Milton, at no auspicious period, had described our nation as " not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to ;" and could not but feel astonished at an attempt to estimate the intellectual spirit of the time... | |
| Bolton Corney - Literature - 1838 - 280 pages
...bore in remembrance that Milton, at IO auspicious period, had described our nation as " not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to ;" and could not but feel astonished at an attempt to estimate the intellectual spirit of the time... | |
| Bolton Corney - English literature - 1838 - 276 pages
...bore in remembrance that Milton, at no auspicious period, had described our nation as " not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to ;" and could not but feel astonished at an attempt to estimate the intellectual spirit of the time... | |
| Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...quick, ingenious and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity...the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and able judgment have been... | |
| Sarah Austin - Education - 1839 - 180 pages
...quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit; acute to invent; subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to. . What could a man require from such a nation, so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What... | |
| Science - 1830 - 1112 pages
...quick, ingenious, and discerning spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach of any 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... | |
| Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...quick, ingenious and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity...studies of learning, in her deepest sciences, have been so ancient * System.— Eds. and so eminent among us, that writers, of good antiquity and ablest... | |
| Henry William Herbert - Great Britain - 1840 - 370 pages
...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 can soar to!— a nation, not luxurious nor effeminate, but of a hardihood surpassing that, I say not of the frivolous... | |
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