 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...  Transactions - Page 186by American Medical Association - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Bolton Corney - English literature - 1838 - 276 pages
...to abroad. I bore in remembrance that Milton, at no auspicious period, had described our nation as " not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to ;" and could not but feel astonished at an attempt to estimate the intellectual spirit of the time... | |
 | English literature - 1838 - 274 pages
...to abroad. I bore in remembrance that Milton, at no auspicious period, had described our nation as " not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to ;" and could not but feel astonished at an attempt to estimate the intellectual spirit of the time... | |
 | Sarah Austin - Education - 1839 - 180 pages
...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...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to. . What could a man require from such a nation, so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What... | |
 | Science - 1830 - 1112 pages
...nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and discerning spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach of...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...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...point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have been so ancient and so eminent among... | |
 | Henry William Herbert - Great Britain - 1840 - 370 pages
...and have been—' a nation, not slow nor dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath...point the highest that human capacity can soar to!— a nation, not luxurious nor effeminate, but of a hardihood surpassing that, I say not of the frivolous... | |
 | Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - Great Britain - 1840 - 1020 pages
...have been — ' a nation, not slow nor dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath...point the highest that human capacity can soar to!— a nation, not luxurious nor effeminate, but of a hardihood surpassing that, I say not of the frivolous... | |
 | Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...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...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning, in her deepest sciences, have been so ancient * System.— Eds.... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Civilization - 1840 - 464 pages
...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...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers to make a knowing... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - Civilization - 1841 - 348 pages
...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...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers to make a knowing... | |
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