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Readings in Political Philosophy

Francis William Coker - Political science - 1914 - 604 pages
...is fresh, the spirits pure and vigorous, not only to vital but to rational faculties, and those in the acutest and the pertest operations of wit and...but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated} nor drooping to...
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Proceedings

Classical Association (Great Britain) - Classical philology - 1915 - 694 pages
...the blood is fresh, the spirits pure and vigorous, not only to vital, but to rational faculties, ... so when the cheerfulness of the people is so sprightly...but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to...
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The Problem of the Commonwealth

Lionel Curtis - Commonwealth countries - 1916 - 280 pages
...pure and vigorous, not only to vital, but to ' rationall faculties ... so when the cheerfulnesse ' of the people is so sprightly up, as that it has,...but to spare, and to bestow upon the ' solidest and sublimest points of controversie, and ' new invention, it betok'n us not degenerated, nor ' drooping...
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Areopagitica

John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1918 - 180 pages
...is fresh, the spirits pure and vigorous, not only to vital, but to rational faculties, and those in the acutest and the pertest operations of wit and...but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and 10 new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...is fresh, the spirits pure and vigorous, not only to vital but to rational faculties, and those in ings are thus in men's depraved judgments sublimest points of contror ersy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to...
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A Treasury of English Prose

Logan Pearsall Smith - English prose literature - 1920 - 272 pages
...is fresh, the spirits pure and vigorous, not only to vital, but to rational faculties, and those in the acutest and the pertest operations of wit and...but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to...
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The Old Country: A Book of Love and Praise of England

Ernest Rhys - England - 1922 - 360 pages
...is fresh, the spirits pure and vigorous, not only to vital but to rational faculties, and those in the acutest and the pertest operations of wit and...but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to...
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Progressive Readings in Prose

Rudolph Wilson Chamberlain, Joseph Sheldon Gerry Bolton - American prose literature - 1923 - 396 pages
...is fresh, the spirits pure and vigorous, not only to vital, but to rational faculties, and those in the acutest and the pertest operations of wit and...but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to...
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The Oxford Book of English Prose

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1124 pages
...blood is fresh, the spirits pure and vigorous not only to vital but to rational faculties and those in the acutest and the pertest operations of wit and...but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to...
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Areopagitica and Other Prose Writings by John Milton

John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1927 - 208 pages
...is fresh, the spirits pure and vigorous, not only to vital, but to rational faculties, and those in the acutest and the pertest operations of wit and...but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, .-nor drooping to...
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