 | 1827 - 630 pagina’s
...from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What VOL. xxxvi. NO. LX.XI. D wants wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil,...people a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ?' It is an easy matter for modern patriots sitting over their claret and filling a bumper to the '... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1839 - 180 pagina’s
...reach of any 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 wants there more to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people,... | |
 | Edward Mammatt - 1840 - 554 pagina’s
...sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil...a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies?'' CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ON BISHOP BURNETT'S "HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND." (Continued... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 464 pagina’s
...sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil,...a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies." To those who think the education of the lower classes an evil, and that some do so is unfortunately... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 340 pagina’s
...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and preg25* nant soil, but wise and faithful labourers to make a knowing...a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies?" To those who think the education of the lower classes an evil, and that some do so is unfortunately... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pagina’s
...reformation: others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of .reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? " Yet in the same wonderful composition he tells us plainly Milton's reconciliation with his wife... | |
 | 1842 - 556 pagina’s
...reformation ; others, as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant...but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people—a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ? We reckon more than five months yet to the... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1842 - 312 pagina’s
...to discourse ; not benenth the reach " of any point the highest that human capacity can " soar to. What wants there to such a towardly " and pregnant...a nation of prophets, of " sages, and of worthies ?" I was not long in Rosendale without meeting some of the foresters, who amply realize the great poet's... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1842 - 346 pagina’s
...reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towaidly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers,...people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ?" I was not long in Rosendale without meeting some of the foresters, who amply realize the great poet's... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1827 - 632 pagina’s
...Reformation : others ¡is fast reading, trying alllhings, assenting to the force of reason and convuiccment ; what could a man require more from a nation so pliant...prone to seek after knowledge .' What wants there lo such ¡i Inwardly and pregnant ; -ni, bul wise and faithful labourers to make a knowing people a... | |
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... there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation; others as fast reading, trying all things,... 
