 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1850 - 710 pages
...of time that this world hath to finish. Lords and Common« of England ! consider what nation it ia 50 that human capacity can soar to. * * Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing... | |
 | American Medical Association - Electronic journals - 1850 - 516 pages
...could with no less truth address them to our own: — "Lords and Commons of England! consider what a nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the...of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit; acute VOL. III. — 13 to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the... | |
 | American Medical Association - Electronic journals - 1850 - 516 pages
...and could he stand in our midst this day, he could with no less truth address them to our own : — to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to." In the American character almost every element which in Europe is reckoned to be national, is transfused... | |
 | William Hendry Stowell - Congregationalists - 1850 - 524 pages
...Hamilton may be truly applied the wellknown description given by Milton of the English people — ' a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit: acute to invent, subtile andsinewyto discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar... | |
 | William Hendry Stowell - Congregationalists - 1850 - 522 pages
...Hamilton may be truly applied the wellknown description given by Milton of the English people — ' a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and picrring spirit: acute to invent, subtile and sine icy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point,... | |
 | Mary Russell Mitford - Authors - 1852 - 592 pages
...nevertheless I took it as a pledge of future happiness that other nations were so persuaded of her liberty." " 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 pressing spirit, acute... | |
 | Charles V. Kraitsir - English language - 1852 - 252 pages
...that which is good" (St. Paul's 1st Epistle to the Thessal. v. 21). CHAPTER II. ENGLISH LANGUAGE. " Lords and Commons of England ; consider what nation...nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious anil piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any... | |
 | England - 1852 - 790 pages
...edueated elasses of England are still what they were described by Milton — " a nation not slow nor dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit...sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human eapacity ean soar to." What effect could any arguments against Free Trade have had on their... | |
 | Scotland - 1852 - 838 pages
...educated classes of England are still what they were described by Milton — " a nation not slow nor doll, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute...sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to." What effect conld any arguments against Free Trade have bad on their... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 pages
...unworthy of England and Englishmen : with a noble and expressive but respectful indignation, he says, " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are governors, — a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ;" he reminds... | |
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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, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the... 
