 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1835 - 394 pages
...and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their...? 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... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...lamps musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation ; others as fast...? 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their...assenting to the force of reason and convincement. 3 67. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ?... | |
 | Sir Thomas Wyse - Education - 1836 - 578 pages
...sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soile, but wise and Jaithfull laboureri to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of icorthies." MILTON.... | |
 | English periodicals - 1837 - 676 pages
...musing, searching, " revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage " and fealty, the approaching reformation ; others as fast...assenting to the force of reason and convincement. We reckon " more than five months yet to harvest; there need not be five weeks, had we " but eyes to... | |
 | Statesmen - 1837 - 430 pages
...pens and heads there, sitting by studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation!" If the courtiers drooped, then, at the last parliament, how much more reason had they to sink down... | |
 | William Jones - 1838 - 696 pages
...and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their...? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful htlxunvrs, to make a knowing people u nation of prophets, of sages, and... | |
 | 1827 - 630 pages
...and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their...pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What VOL. xxxvi. NO. LX.XI. D wants wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 608 pages
...and heads there sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their...reading, trying all things, assenting to the force ot reason and convincement. What could a man require more — from a nation so pliant and so prone... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their...? 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... | |
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Justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching Reformation :... 
