 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, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach...  The Prose Works of John Milton - الصفحة 115بواسطة John Milton - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 976عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Bolton Corney - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 276
...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... | |
 | 1830 - عدد الصفحات: 1112
...nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and discerning spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach of...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 404
...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... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 180
..." Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation ye are of, 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... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 370
...And wherefore, I would ask you, not ? Consider what we are, and have been—' a nation, not slow nor dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit,...point the highest that human capacity can soar to!— a nation, not luxurious nor effeminate, but of a hardihood surpassing that, I say not of the frivolous... | |
 | Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 1020
...And wherefore, I would ask you, not? Consider what we are, and have been — ' a nation, not slow nor dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit,...point the highest that human capacity can soar to!— a nation, not luxurious nor effeminate, but of a hardihood surpassing that, I say not of the frivolous... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 464
...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...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers to make a knowing... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 514
...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, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - عدد الصفحات: 800
...Commons of England ! consider what a 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... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 348
...Commons of England ! consider what a 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... | |
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