| Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 436 pages
...senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arme, repelled The fierce Epirot, and the African bold, Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The drift of hollow states hard to be spelled ; Then to advise how war may best upheld Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 586 pages
...not less important, part which rests with almost exclusive weight upon them. They furnish the means, -How war may best upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In ail her equipage." Not that they are exempt from contributing also by their personal service in the... | |
| Joseph Angus - Church and state - 1839 - 286 pages
...establishments will speedily and for ever cease. 142 CHAPTER V. OF THE OFFICE AND DUTIES OF THE CIVIL RULER. " Besides to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learn'd, which few have done: The bounds of either sword to thee we owe: Therefore on thy... | |
| John Brown - 1839 - 562 pages
...praise bestowed by Milton on the younger Vane— " Young in years, but in sage counsel old, - • - - to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast leam'd, which few have done." " It is suggested by the master of political science just mentioned... | |
| Great Britain - 1839 - 466 pages
...he should have differed in this particular from his illustrious coadjutor, Vane, who had ' learned to know both spiritual power and civil, what each means, what severs each, which few have done,' yet it is but just that we should distinguish between one. species of persecutor... | |
| Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1839 - 572 pages
...which rests with almost exclusive weight upon them. They furnish the means, " How war may best uphold, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage." Not that they are exempt from contributing also by their personal service in the fleets and armies... | |
| Tracts - Church and state - 1840 - 514 pages
...senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repell'd The fierce Epirot and the African bold, Whether to settle peace or to unfold The drift...power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learn'd, which few have The bounds of either sword to thee we owe : [done : Therefore on... | |
| Popular literature - 1840 - 480 pages
...senator ne'er held The helm of Home, when gowns, not arms, repelled The flerce Epirot, and the African bold, Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The drift of hollow states, hard to be spelled, Then to advise, how war may, best upheld, Move by her two great nerves, iron and gold, In... | |
| Theodore Sedgwick Fay - 1841 - 262 pages
...senator ne'er held The helm of Home, when gowns, not arms, repelled The fierce Epirot and the African bold; Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The drift of hollow States, hard to be spelled." Milton to Sir Henry Vane the Younger. MR. MORDAUNT LESLIE sat alone in his study. Hitherto... | |
| William Ewart Gladstone - Church and state - 1841 - 392 pages
...other, it is true, is not less important than neglected. Milton* wrote to Sir Harry Vane the younger, - besides, to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learnt, which few have done : and the praise which was rarely due in his days ought, I fear,... | |
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