...writers of all ages, and especially in our own country ; " a nation," as Milton has described it, " not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity...

...rulers, said, " Lords and commons of England ! Consider what nation it is whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious,...point the highest that human capacity can soar to." Such a nation did he (Lord Lansdown) think Ireland was. He besought the house to remember, that over...

...Lords and Commons of England ! Consider what nation it n whereof ye are the governors : a nation nut slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing...invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath Ihe reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to." Such a nation was Ireland. Hebesought...

...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, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity...

...government, tried upon a nation, not slow and dull, but, in the words of its immortal advocate, "of a quirk, ingenious, and piercing spirit — acute to invent,...point the highest that human capacity can soar to." That James could have deceived himself respecting the nature of the monarchy of England was utterly...

...prerogative. " Consider, Sir, what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are one of the governors ; a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtile aad sinewy in' discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar...

...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, subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity...

...to abroad. I bore in remembrance that Milton, at IO auspicious period, had described our nation as " not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to ;" and could not but feel astonished at an attempt to estimate the intellectual spirit of the time...

...to abroad. I bore in remembrance that Milton, at no auspicious period, had described our nation as " not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to ;" and could not but feel astonished at an attempt to estimate the intellectual spirit of the time...

...to abroad. I bore in remembrance that Milton, at no auspicious period, had described our nation as " not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to ;" and could not but feel astonished at an attempt to estimate the intellectual spirit of the time...