 | William Hendry Stowell - 1850 - 524 sivua
...Hamilton may be truly applied the wellknown description given by Milton of the English people — ' a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit: acute to invent, subtile andsinewyto discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar... | |
 | William Hendry Stowell - 1850 - 522 sivua
...Hamilton may be truly applied the wellknown description given by Milton of the English people — ' a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and picrring spirit: acute to invent, subtile and sine icy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1852 - 592 sivua
...took it as a pledge of future happiness that other nations were so persuaded of her liberty." " 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 pressing spirit, acute... | |
 | Charles V. Kraitsir - 1852 - 252 sivua
...which is good" (St. Paul's 1st Epistle to the Thessal. v. 21). CHAPTER II. ENGLISH LANGUAGE. " Lords and Commons of England ; consider what nation it is...nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious anil piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any... | |
 | 1852 - 790 sivua
...edueated elasses of England are still what they were described by Milton — " a nation not slow nor dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit...sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human eapacity ean soar to." What effect could any arguments against Free Trade have had on their... | |
 | 1852 - 838 sivua
...educated classes of England are still what they were described by Milton — " a nation not slow nor doll, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute...sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to." What effect conld any arguments against Free Trade have bad on their... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 sivua
...of England and Englishmen : with a noble and expressive but respectful indignation, he says, " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are governors, — a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ;" he reminds... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 sivua
...deliverance, as shall never be forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish, Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is...ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile aud sinewy to uiscour-e, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to. * * Alcthinks... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - 1853 - 378 sivua
...so persuaded of her liberty." " * * * * " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are the governors ; a nation, not slow...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.... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 sivua
...world hath to finish. ENGLAND AND LONDON. Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it ia whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors :...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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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... 
