 | William Cooke Taylor - Factory system - 1842 - 346 pages
...John Milton, which cannot be too often quoted : — " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what it is 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... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Factory system - 1842 - 312 pages
...and Commons of England ! consider what " it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the govern" ors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick , " ingenious, and piercing spirit : acute to invent, sub" tie and sinewy to discourse ; not benenth the reach " of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | 1842 - 602 pages
...imitated in Great Britain; « a Nation, » to use the magnificent language of England's great Poet, « 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 any point the « highest that human capacity... | |
 | 1843 - 454 pages
...THOUGHTS FOR SCHOOLMASTERS. No. II. I. Lords and Commons of England I consider what a nation it is whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. . What wants there to such towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1844 - 692 pages
...deliverance, as »hall never bo forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish. Lords lls do not a prison make, Xor iron bars a cage ; Minds, innocent and quiet, take Tha that human capacity can soar to. * * Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing... | |
 | 1844 - 702 pages
...strikingly to the topics upon which we iave touched ! ' Lords and Commons of England, consider what 4 nation 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 capa' city... | |
 | LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS - 1844 - 652 pages
...strikingly to the topics upon which we have touched ! ' Lords and Commons of England, consider what * nation 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 capa' city... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1845 - 404 pages
...teacher, I endure not an instructor that comes to me under the wardship of an overseeing fist. Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is...sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to. Methinks 1 see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...church ; not the forced and outward union, of cold, and /_neutral, and inwardly divided minds. Lords and commons of England ! consider what nation it is...ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subfile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 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... | |
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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... 
