 ... and enlightened our spirits, like the influence of heaven : this is that which hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our apprehensions degrees above themselves.  Free Press Anthology - Page 151909 - 267 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...It is Liberty which is the nurse of all great wits; this is that which hath rarified and enlightened our spirits, like the influence of heaven ; this is...make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly prising of the truth, unless you first make yourselves, *vho made us so, less the founders of our true... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 484 pages
...us ; liberty which is the nurse of all great wits. This is that which hath rarified and enlightened our spirits like the influence of heaven ; this is...less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 492 pages
...us ; liberty which is the nurse of all great wits. This is that which hath rarified and enlightened our spirits like the influence of heaven ; this is...less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...great wits : this is that which hath ranficd and enlightened our spirits like the influence of Hepven ; this is that which hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our apprehensions degrees ahove themselves. Ye cannot make us now less capahle, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1810 - 470 pages
...liberty, '*. which is the nurse of all great wits : this is that f' which hath rarefied and enlightened our spirits " like the influence of heaven; this is...which " hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our appret t hensions, degrees above themselves. Ye cannot " make as now less capable, less knowing, less... | |
 | Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...influence of heaven ; this is that which " huLn enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our appre" hensions, degrees above themselves. Ye cannot " make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly ie pursuing the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, " that made us so, less the lovers, less the... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...which is the nurse of all great wits -. this is that which hath rarified and enlightened (.inspirits, like the influence of Heaven ; this is that which hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up onr apprehensions degrees above themselves. Ye cannot make us now less capable, less knowing, less... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 634 pages
...all great wits : this is that " which hath rarefied and enlightened our spirits like the in" fluence of heaven ; this is that which hath enfranchised,...less capable, less " knowing, less eagerly pursuing the truth, unless ye first " make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less " the founders... | |
 | James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 470 pages
...liberty, " which is the nurse of all great wits: this is that " which hath rarefied and enlightened our spirits " like the influence of heaven ; this...which " hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our ap" prehensions, degrees above themselves. Ye cannot " make us now less capable, less knowing, less... | |
 | Trials - 1817 - 650 pages
...enlightened our spirits like the influence of Heaven; this is that which hathenfranchised,enlarged,and lifted up our apprehensions, degrees above themselves....grow ignorant again, brutish, formal, and slavish, аз ye found us; but you then must first become that which ye cannot be, oppressive, arbitrary, and... | |
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