 | John Milton - 1851 - 606 pages
...knowledge. What wants there to fuch a towardly and pregnant foile, but wife and faithfull labourers, to make a knowing people, a Nation of Prophets, of Sages, and of Worthies. We reck'n more then five months yet to harveft ; there need not be five weeks, had we but eyes to lift... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - Great Britain - 1852 - 506 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.'' Thus, indeed, may we truly say of our cities : to be restored to a healthy place in the nation they... | |
 | Slavery - 1852 - 166 pages
...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, 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 lift... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 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 I — Metkinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself, like a strong man after... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - Great Britain - 1853 - 528 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... | |
 | Education - 1856 - 594 pages
...convincement. AVbat could a man require more than an attention so pliant and so to seek after knowledge ? What wants to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but...an abstract ; and at its close they testified their appreciation of it by applause. Several gentlemen expressed their hearty concurrence in the views presented... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...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...to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of snges. and of worthies ? we reckon more than five months yet to harvest; there need not be five weeks,... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - Periodicals - 1856 - 516 pages
...after 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 ?" ART. IV.—MR. MACAULAY. The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second. By Thomas... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 444 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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...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...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... | |
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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... 
