 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...  Seventeenth Century Prose - Sida 8redigerad av - 1907 - 85 sidorObegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | Algernon Sidney - 1805 - 522 sidor
...slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the...can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in their deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity,... | |
 | James Macpherson, Archibald M'Donald - 1805 - 308 sidor
...philosophers;* and Milton asserts,* " that writers of good an" tiquity, have been persuaded, that even " Pythagoras, and the Persian wisdom, " took beginning from the old philosophy ?* of this island." The * See Elias Schecl. de Diis Gennanis; and Borlasses Antiquities of Cornwall, p. 6j. The early transactions... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 sidor
...piercing spirit ; acute to invent, suhtile and sinewy to discourse, not heneath the reach of any peint the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore...the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have heen so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and ahle judgment have heen... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 sidor
...slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any .point the...eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and able judgment have been persuaded, that even the school of Pythagoras, and the Persian wisdom, took... | |
 | 1848 - 752 sidor
...slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.' A memory which seemed to retain all that he ever read or heard, furnished an inexhaustible storehouse... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 484 sidor
...and dull, " but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to in" vent, subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach " of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to." Montesquieu has dedicated more than one Book of his work on Laws to the effects of Climate upon the... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 sidor
...dull, but of. a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to3. Therefore the studies of Learning in her deepest Sciences have bin so ancient, and so eminent... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 sidor
...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 can soar to." We are not sufficiently dogmatical to believe that our peculiar notions should regulate all the rest... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 sidor
...slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter, we are become, hitherto, the... | |
 | 1822 - 576 sidor
...slow'and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any, point the highest that human capacity can'soar to. But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter, we are become,... | |
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