| John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...their fealty, the t approaching reformation : others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting I to the force of reason and convincement. What could...nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? WfJat_wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a... | |
| John Forster - Great Britain - 1846 - 738 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... | |
| Half hours - 1847 - 580 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 pro phets, of sages, and... | |
| United States - 1847 - 606 pages
...wherewith to present, as with their homage and their lenity, the approaching lefurination ; »there, ae fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and couviucemeut. What could a man require more — from a nation so pliant and no prone to seek after... | |
| John Milton - Essays - 1848 - 566 pages
...qui modo linguam Romanam abnuebant, eloquentiam concupiscerent." — (Tacit. Agricol. xxi.) — ED. to present, as with their homage and their fealty,...? 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... | |
| Moon - 1848 - 246 pages
...lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present us with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation ; others as fast,...assenting to the force of reason and convincement.' " You may suppose then how valuable to himself, and how valuable to the learned, would be the papers... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1850 - 470 pages
...pens and heads 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... | |
| John Milton - 1851 - 606 pages
...by their ftudious lamps, mufing, fearching, revolving new notions and idea's wherewith to prefent, as with their homage and their fealty the approaching Reformation : others as faft reading, trying all things, aflenting to the force of reafon and convincement. What could a man... | |
| Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 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...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... | |
| Slavery - 1852 - 166 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...seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardiy and pregnant soil but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets,... | |
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