 | Christopher Hill - 1982 - 308 sidor
...abolition of thought-control would liberate men's energies and lead to a great intellectual leap forward. '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 any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | Robert Martin Adams - 1983 - 646 sidor
...million or so inhabitants. Not for nothing did Milton describe his countrymen in "Areopagitica" as 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 any point, the highest that human capacity... | |
 | Louis Lohr Martz - 1986 - 388 sidor
...and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is wherof ye are, and wherof ye are the governours: a Nation not slow and 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... | |
 | Thomas N. Corns - 1987 - 192 sidor
...and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is wherof ye are, and wherof ye are the governours: a Nation not slow and 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... | |
 | Jeffery A. Smith - 1990 - 246 sidor
...to be "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 to." Milton traced censorship back to Roman despots and popes and represented the licensing procedure as... | |
 | Helsinki Watch (Organization : U.S.) - 1991 - 84 sidor
...Leah Levin, Richard Norton-Taylor, Andrew Puddephatt, Geoffrey Robertson and Philip Spender. I^ord 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. It must not be shackled... | |
 | Geoffrey F. Nuttall - 1992 - 228 sidor
...was a rising nationalism of the kind which reaches its peak in Milton's Areopagitica (1644) : Lords and Commons of England, consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors: ... the favour and the love of Heaven, we have great argument to think in a peculiar manner propitious... | |
 | Liah Greenfeld - 1992 - 600 sidor
...the English to be the chosen people. He appealed to the Lords and Commons of England in Areopagitica: "Consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governours: a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent,... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1993 - 1214 sidor
...Cliffs, a long narrative poem extolling Britain's resistance during World War II. 45 Lords and Commoners 0 subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
 | Paul M. Dowling - 1995 - 160 sidor
...beleaguered Parliamentary army, the opening exhortation of that description should raise questions: "consider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors." England's armies were in fact deciding on the field of battle what the nation was and who governed... | |
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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... 
