...* * * * " 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, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to....

...nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; aente to invent, aubtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point the highest that human capacity can soar to."— MILTON. THE AEEOFAGITICA. Reprinted, with additions, from The Irish Quarterly Review, JVo. 15, September,...

...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 can scar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient and so eminent...

...whereof ye are the governors ; a nation, not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and pressing spirit, acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to. * * * Methinks I see in my rnind a noble and puissant nation, rousing...

...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,...

...— a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point the highest that human capacity can soar to Now once again, by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as...

...its master-minds : — " LoBDS 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, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity...

...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...

...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...

...nation not slow and dull, but of <a «qtilcfc*, 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." — MILTON. "If we weave a yard of tape in all humility and as well as we can, long hereafter we shall...