 | Theology - 1833 - 422 pages
...and so prone to seek after know* Hist. of Great Britain, Charles I. ch. v. ledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and...people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ? We reckon more than five months yet to harvest ; there need not be five weeks, had we but eyes to... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1835 - 394 pages
...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 of worthies ?"* The following image of the nation has been frequently quoted, but should never be omitted in any portraiture... | |
 | John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, 0 We reckon more than five months yet to harvest; there need not be five weeks, had we but eyes to lift... | |
 | Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...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 of worthies ? We reckon more than five months yet to harvest ; there need not be five weeks ; had we but eyes to... | |
 | Sir Thomas Wyse - Education - 1836 - 578 pages
...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. THE Education which embraces in the most perfect way the whole man, we have called... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 608 pages
...a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge Î What want« there to such a towardly ana pregnant soil, but wise and faithful laborers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophet«, of sages, and of worthies?'' — MILTOK'S ARKOPAOITICA. are a nation of readers, thirty... | |
 | 1827 - 630 pages
...NO. LX.XI. D wants 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 of worthies ?' It is an easy matter for modern patriots sitting over their claret and filling a bumper to the '... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...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 of worthies ? we reckon more than five months yet to harvest ; there need not be five weeks had we but eyes to... | |
 | Sarah Austin - Education - 1839 - 180 pages
...knowledge ? What wants there more to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ? " NOTES. Note, p. 13. THE following extracts from the Minutes of Evidence taken before the Committee... | |
 | Science - 1830 - 1112 pages
...can soar to. 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 of worthies ?'' CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS ON BISHOP BURNETTS "HISTORY OF THE REFORMATION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND."... | |
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What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful laborers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies... 
