 ... 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
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...and vigorous, not only to vital, but to rational faculties, and those in the acutest, and the pcrtcst give them a Figure in the Eye of the Village. A Country-Fellow distinguishes himself as ia so sprightly up, as that it nas, not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but... | |
 | Alfred Macleod - 1877 - 238 pages
...only to vital but to rational faculties — and those in the acutest and the pertest operations of art and subtlety — it argues in what good plight and...when the cheerfulness of the people is so sprightly upas that it has not only the wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 462 pages
...eald to have retorted by putting up for sale at auction the chops In the vicinity of the Roman Forum. pertest operations of wit and subtlety, it argues...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... | |
 | Joseph Gostwick - English language - 1878 - 528 pages
...fresh, the spirits pure and vigorous — not only to vital but to rational faculties, and those in the acutest and the pert-est operations of wit and...in what good plight and constitution the body is,' etc.— MILTON. The examples given suffice to show that in etymology references to history are the... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1878 - 508 pages
...— the best, we believe, that ever was written by any pen." XCVII.— THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. 1. When the cheerfulness of the people is so sprightly up, as that it hath not only wherewithal to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon... | |
 | George Shea - Biography & Autobiography - 1880 - 516 pages
...Perpetuating the British Empire," drawn by Franklin,1 if the paper had been preserved to our time, up, as that it has, not only wherewith to guard well...but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy, and new invention, it betoken us not degenerated, nor drooping to... | |
 | William Torrey Harris, Andrew Jackson Rickoff, Mark Bailey - Readers - 1879 - 508 pages
...the best, we believe, that ever was written by any pen." XCVII.— THE LIBERTY OF THE PRESS. 1. Wlien the cheerfulness of the people is so sprightly up, as that it hath not only wherewithal to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...is fresh, the spirits pnre 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 •olidest and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor... | |
 | William Swinton - American literature - 1880 - 694 pages
...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...what good plight* and constitution the body is; so ./1 when the cheerfulness of the people is so sprightly up as that it has not only wherewith to guard... | |
 | William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Forensic orations - 1880 - 552 pages
...When the cheerfulness of the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly up, as that it hath 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 a... | |
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