| François-René vicomte de Chateaubriand - 1837 - 380 páginas
...not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation...is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after sleep,... | |
| 1830 - 1112 páginas
...education, and then enter into a comparison of the moral and intellectual character of the three kingdoms. " 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 discerning spirit ; acute... | |
| Henry William Herbert - 1840 - 370 páginas
...And wherefore, I would ask you, not ? Consider what we are, 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 the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
| Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - 1840 - 1020 páginas
...And wherefore, I would ask you, not? Consider what we are, 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 the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1842 - 312 páginas
...and Commons of England ! consider what " it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the govern" ors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick , " ingenious, and piercing spirit : acute to invent, sub" tie and sinewy to discourse ; not benenth the reach " of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
| 1843 - 454 páginas
...THOUGHTS FOR SCHOOLMASTERS. No. II. I. Lords and Commons of England I consider what a nation it is whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and...ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1844 - 692 páginas
...deliverance, as »hall never bo forgotten by any revolution of time that this world hath to finish. one walls do not a prison make, Xor iron bars a cage ; Minds, innocent and quiet, take Tha subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to.... | |
| John Milton - 1845 - 572 páginas
...VOL. I. 24 «2 / best harmony in a church ; not the forced and outward union, of cold, and /_neutral, and inwardly divided minds. Lords and commons of England...ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subfile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
| John Seely Hart - 1845 - 404 páginas
...pupil teacher, I endure not an instructor that comes to me under the wardship of an overseeing fist. Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation...quick, ingenious and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point that human capacity can soar to.... | |
| John Milton - 1845 - 572 páginas
...harmony in a church; not the forced and outward union, of_cold^and neutral, andihwardTy divided muuls, / lords and commons of England ! consider what nation...whereof ye are the governors ; a nation not slow and dulf7T>ut~oT a 'quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile aijd sinewy "to discourse,... | |
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