 ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, 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 a...  Retrospective Review - Page 19edited by - 1824Full view - About this book
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...the chief cause why sects and schisms do so much abound, and true knowledge is kept at a distance. When the cheerfulness of the people is so 'sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewithal to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon the solidest... | |
 | James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 470 pages
...purify the lips of whom he pleases. " When the cheerfulness of " the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly " up, as that it has not only wherewith...but to spare, and " to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points " of controversy and new invention, it betokens us ** not degenerated nor drooping... | |
 | Trials - 1817 - 650 pages
...purify the lips of whom he pleases. — " When the cheerfulness of the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith...but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimes! points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated nor drooping to a... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...and suttlety1, it argues in what good plight and constitution the Body is ; so when the cherfulnesse of the People is so sprightly up, as that it has,...not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and 9 Who when Rome wot nigh besieg'd by Hanibal, being in the City, bought that peece of ground at no... | |
 | Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...constitution the body is; so when the cheerfulness of tlia people is so sprightly up as that it baa not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom 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... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 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...freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon the solid and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping... | |
 | Books - 1824 - 408 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...sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to fuard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to estow upon the solidest and the sublimest... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 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...cheerfulness of the people is so sprightly up as that it his not only wherewith to guarjl ggjiits own freednrn .and safpty, but to spare, and to bestow upon... | |
 | Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...the spirits pure and vigorous, not only to vital but to rational faculties, and those in the accutest and the pertest operations of wit and subtlety, it...constitution the body is; so when the cheerfulness of tlie people is so sprightly up as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and... | |
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