...Empire alone stands justified. CHAPTER VI A BETTER SOCIETY— SOCIALISM AND THE BRITISH TRADITION " Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation...governors : a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, vigorous and fiery spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...

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...that continue seeking, that continue to do our ohsequies to the torn hody of our martyred saint . . . Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation...ye are the governors: a nation not slow and dull, hut of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suhtle and sinewy to discourse, not...

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...physiological potencies evoked earlier in the pamphlet are unleashed here in the description of England, "a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can...

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...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...piercing spirit; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse,0 not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore...

...Areopagitica (l644) Milton apostrophized the English Parliament as the governors of an exceptional nation, 'a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious...piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy in discourse'. Yet that which is above all this, the favour and the love of heaven, we have great argument...