 | William Cooke Taylor - Factory system - 1842 - 346 pages
...reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towaidly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers,...nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ?" I was not long in Rosendale without meeting some of the foresters, who amply realize the great poet's... | |
 | LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS - 1844 - 652 pages
...sinewy to discourse, not ' beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capa' city can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and ' pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers ?' The diminution of the sinew and bone of the body politic, we believe to be traceable but in part... | |
 | 1844 - 702 pages
...sinewy to discourse, not ' beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capa' city can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and ' pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers ? ' The diminution of the sinew and bone of the body politic, we believe to be traceable but in part... | |
 | 1844 - 532 pages
...stupendous talent, for good or evil employment, is here entrusted to our Government and people ! " What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers," men who know their duty, and are anxious to fulfil it? To undertake the conquest of India, that we... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...could a man require more ' from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? WfJat_wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise...nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies.?.. We reckon more than five months yet to harvest ; there need not Ee five weeks, had we but eyes to lift... | |
 | Basil Montagu, Hannah Mary Rathbone - English literature - 1845 - 396 pages
...to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there...towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful laborers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages and of worthies ? we reckon more... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there...faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of pro phets, of sages, and of worthies ? We reckon more than five months yet to harvest ; there need... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 606 pages
...couviucemeut. What could a man require more — from a nation so pliant and no prone to seek after knowledge Î What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful laborers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies? ' — Милоя'а... | |
 | John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there...people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ? We reckon more than five months yet to harvest; there need not be five weeks, had we but eyes to... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1850 - 470 pages
...to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there...a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies." Thus, indeed, may we truly say of our cities : to be restored to a healthy place in the nation they... | |
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What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies... 
