...*«- '". Д ;-. ". ' " Lords and Common« of England ! consider what tùtioa It-n -jrJrereOi ye tfre, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of <a «qtilcfc*, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath...

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...progress and utility. We are indeed, as Milton said of us long since, "a right honest, right hardy nation; not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ;" a maid, serious, religious people, but yet material. Materialism is the bent of the national. mind....

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...exhuberauce of language. Milton's description of the English people has not been inaptly applied to him — " Not slow and dull, but of a 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...

...the very pleasing, modest way he has taken to do it in. — Jeffrey. Lords and Commons of England 1 consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof...ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point thai, human capacity can soar to....

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...shall never be forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish. ENGLAND AND LONDON. Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation...whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and d ull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse,...

...author's richest and most delightful compositions. The following has not been inaptly applied to him. " Not slow and dull, but of a 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...

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