 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 Englishman's magazine [ed. by E. Moxon]. - Pagina 3551831Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Bolton Corney - 1838 - 280 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Bolton Corney - 1838 - 276 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1839 - 180 pagina’s
...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 could a man require from such a nation, so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pagina’s
...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. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient and so eminent among... | |
 | 1830 - 1112 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - 1840 - 1020 pagina’s
...ask you, not? Consider what we are, and have been — ' a nation, not slow nor dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtile...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 - 1840 - 370 pagina’s
...ask you, not ? Consider what we are, and have been—' a nation, not slow nor dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtile...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... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 pagina’s
...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. Therefore the studies of learning, in her deepest sciences, have been so ancient * System.— Eds.... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 464 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 348 pagina’s
...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... | |
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