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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and Ecclesiastical ... - Page 317
by John Milton - 1809
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Reformatory Schools In France And England

Patrick Joseph Murray - England - 1854 - 158 pages
...MURRAY, ESQ., BARRISTER-AT-LAW. tl Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is whei eof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation...dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; aente to invent, aubtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest...
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Recollections of a Literary Life

Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1855 - 580 pages
...whereof ye are the governors ; a nation, not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and pressing spirit, acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to. * * * Methinks I see in my rnind a noble and puissant nation, rousing...
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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged, from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...never be forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish. 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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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 3

Half hours - 1856 - 444 pages
...Agonistes' in 1671. He died on the 8th of November, 1074, and was buried in St. Giles's, Cripplegate.] Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is...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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Oliver Cromwell; Or, England's Great Protector

Henry William Herbert - Great Britain - 1856 - 460 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,...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 2

Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...in St. Giles's, Cripplegate.] Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof yc are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piereing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point...
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The National Review, Volume 2

1856 - 560 pages
...— a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point the highest that human capacity can soar to Now once again, by all concurrence of signs, and by the general instinct of holy and devout men, as...
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Notes and Queries

Electronic journals - 1856 - 730 pages
...but shall conclude with a pertinent hint from the writings of one of its master-minds : — " LoBDS AND COMMONS OF ENGLAND, consider what nation it is whereof ye are — a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle...
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Mechanics' Magazine, Volume 67

Technology - 1857 - 670 pages
...MAGAZINE. JULY 4тн — DECEMBER 26тн, 1857. EDITED BY RA BROOMAN & EJ REED. VOL. LXVII. " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation It Is...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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A Compendium of English Literature: Chronologically Arranged from Sir John ...

Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...never be forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish. ENGLAND AND LONDON. Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is...of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute 10 invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human...
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