 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 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 ? * . . . Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1871 - 556 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 1* . . . Mrthinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - English language - 1872 - 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 (3) worthies? We reckon more than five months yet to harvest; there need not be five weeks: had we... | |
 | John Milton - 1873 - 130 pages
...Knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soile but wise 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 harvest; there need not be five weeks, had we but eyes to lift... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 754 pages
...What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise VOL. III. U and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a Nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies? . . . "Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing,... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 474 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 rive months yet to harvest. There need not be five weeks, had we but eyes to... | |
 | John Waddington - Congregationalism - 1874 - 756 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 ? Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be mnch arguing, much writing, many... | |
 | John Milton - 1874 - 228 pages
...knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soile but wise and faithfull labourers, to make a knowing people, a Nation of Prophets, of Sages, and of Worthies? We 15reck'n more then five months yet to harvest; there need not be five weeks j had we but eyes' to... | |
 | John Milton - 1876 - 506 pages
...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...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1876 - 506 pages
...and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, l»ut wise and faithful laborers, 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... | |
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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... 
