 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1850 - 470 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...a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies." Thus, indeed, may we truly say of our cities : to be restored to a healthy place in the nation they... | |
 | 1847 - 608 pagina’s
...reformation ; others, as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force ot reason and convincement. What could a man require more — from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge Î What want« there to such a towardly ana pregnant soil, but wise and faithful laborers, to make... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 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...people a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies I — Metkinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself, like a strong man after... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 506 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...a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies.'' Thus, indeed, may we truly say of our cities : to be restored to a healthy place in the nation they... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1852 - 800 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...towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful laborers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ? we reckon more... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 pagina’s
...knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful laborers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of...worthies ? we reckon more than five months yet to harvest ; tbere need not be five weeks, had we but eyes to lift up ; the fields are white already. REFORM.... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 350 pagina’s
...notions and ideas." Others were, "as fast reading, trying all things." Milton asks, • Discoveries. " What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge T He truly answers : " wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 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 enough, and without any severity of rebuke,... | |
 | 1856 - 520 pagina’s
...trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more than a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge?...people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ?" AKT. IV.— MR. MACAULAY. The Hittory of England, from the Accession ofJamcx the Second. By Thomas... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 520 pagina’s
...trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more than a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge?...people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ?" ART. IV.— MR. MACAULAY. The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second. By Thomas... | |
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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,... 
