 | English literature - 1838 - 274 pages
...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... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...astronomy otherwise than the franciscan and dominican licensers thought.* ENGLAND AND LONDON. LORDS and commons of England ! consider what nation it is...quick, ingenious and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | Sarah Austin - Education - 1839 - 180 pages
...behalf of his and our countrymen: — " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation ye are of, and 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, the highest that human capacity... | |
 | Science - 1830 - 1112 pages
...then enter into a comparison of the moral and intellectual character of the three kingdoms. " 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 discerning spirit ; acute... | |
 | Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...in a church ; not the forced and outward union of cold and neutral and inwardlydivided minds. Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is...quick, ingenious and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity... | |
 | Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - Great Britain - 1840 - 1020 pages
...And wherefore, I would ask you, not? Consider what we are, and have been — ' a nation, not slow nor dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit,...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 - Great Britain - 1840 - 370 pages
...And wherefore, I would ask you, not ? Consider what we are, and have been—' a nation, not slow nor dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit,...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... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 pages
...wildness. Well may we use the noble words of Milton : — " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what a nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the...quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit; acute to invent; subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Civilization - 1840 - 464 pages
...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 - Civilization - 1841 - 348 pages
...wildness. Well may we use the noble words of Milton : — " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what a nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the...quick, 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... 
