...Leah Levin, Richard Norton-Taylor, Andrew Puddephatt, Geoffrey Robertson and Philip Spender. I^ord and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are: a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit. It must not be shackled...

...them was a rising nationalism of the kind which reaches its peak in Milton's Areopagitica (1644) : Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation...whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors: ... the favour and the love of Heaven, we have great argument to think in a peculiar manner propitious...

...the English to be the chosen people. He appealed to the Lords and Commons of England in Areopagitica: "Consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governours: a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent,...

...beleaguered Parliamentary army, the opening exhortation of that description should raise questions: "consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors." England's armies were in fact deciding on the field of battle what the nation was and who governed...

...national pride, Milton entreated the "Lords and Commons of England, [to] consider what nation . . . whereof ye are the governors: a nation not slow and...quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy in discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity...

...and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is wherof ye are, and wherof Ye are the governours: 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...

...turmoil. He sacralized not the nation at that point but the people, suggesting an ethnic dimension: "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 humanity can soar...

...A STUDY IN THE ECONOMICS OF POWER BY JL GARVIN 'Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nati on it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors...piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to diseourse, not oeneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. . . . —...

...scientific inquiry: If I could for a moment command the organ voice of Milton I would exclaim that we are a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and 115 sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest human capacity can soar to.81...

...Englishmen banded together in their great workshop of war and ideas, hammering out a stirring future, 'a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit', rousing itself like Samson from its sleep to do great deeds.34 On the other hand, Parliamentary rhetoricians...