 Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the...  Progressive Readings in Prose - Seite 141herausgegeben von - 1923 - 376 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 784 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | Richard Vickerman Taylor - 1865 - 552 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1866 - 492 Seiten
...Inquisition, for thinking in astronomy otherwise than the Franciscan and Dominican licences thought. Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are the governors ; a nation not slow and dull, but of quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, . . . not... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 Seiten
...cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds. II. — AN EAGER SPIRIT OF INQUIRY AWAKE IN ENGLAND. Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation...ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy 7to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | Robert Charles Winthrop - 1867 - 756 Seiten
...degenerate offspring of a race, which John Milton so nobly and so justly characterized, when he said, — " Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation...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... | |
 | Dublin city, univ - 1868 - 360 Seiten
...weep;—0, fool, I shall go inad! Translate the following passage into Latin Prose :— SttAKSI'EABK. Lords and Commons of England! consider what nation...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... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1869 - 416 Seiten
...employed without expressing surprise or command, merely for varying the effect of intonation. Examples. " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation...but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit; acute f to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - 1870 - 548 Seiten
...Milton, " what could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge, — a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick', ingenious, and piercing spirit, acnte to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach of any point the highest that... | |
 | M. S. Mitchell - 1871 - 422 Seiten
...employed without expressing surprise or command, merely for varying the effect of intonation. Examples. " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation...the governors ; a nation not slow and dull, but of n quick, ingenious and piercing spirit ; acute 184 ELOCUTION. to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse,... | |
 | 1872 - 556 Seiten
...deliverance, as shall never be forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish. Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation...ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to... | |
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