 ... ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching 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...  Discourses on Government - Page 95by Algernon Sidney - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...all things, assorting 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? What wants there to such atowardly and pregnant soil, hut wise and faithful lahourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...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...? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and... | |
 | Francis Maseres - Canada - 1809 - 638 pages
...fo prone to feek after knowledge ? What wants there to fuch a towardly and pregnant foil, but wife and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of fages, and of worthies ? We reckon more than five months yet to liarveft ; there need not be five weeks,... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...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....to such a towardly and pregnant soile, but wise and faithfull labourers, to make a knowing People, a Nation of Prophets, of Sages, and of Worthies. We... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - Great Britain - 1822 - 580 pages
...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...? 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 Sages, and... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...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...? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...all tilings, 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...? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1827 - 624 pages
...all things, assenting- to the foroe of reason and convincement ; what could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge....' What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers to make a knowing people a nation of prophets, of sages, and... | |
 | British literature - 1834 - 532 pages
...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? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people a nation of prophet*, of sages, and... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...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...? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and... | |
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