Ye cannot make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty. Studies in Literature and Style - Page 91by Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1890 - 297 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1795 - 432 pages
...It is Liberty which is the nurse of all great wits; this is that which hath rarified and enlightened our spirits, like the influence of heaven ; this is...make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly prising of the truth, unless you first make yourselves, *vho made us so, less the founders of our true... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 492 pages
...us ; liberty which is the nurse of all great wits. This is that which hath rarified and enlightened our spirits like the influence of heaven ; this is...less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of... | |
| Nathaniel Chapman - 1807 - 484 pages
...us ; liberty which is the nurse of all great wits. This is that which hath rarified and enlightened our spirits like the influence of heaven ; this is...less capable, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of... | |
| Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...great wits : this is that which hath ranficd and enlightened our spirits like the influence of Hepven ; this is that which hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our apprehensions degrees ahove themselves. Ye cannot make us now less capahle, less knowing, less eagerly pursuing of the truth,... | |
| John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...; liberty, which is the nurse of all great wits : this is that which hath rarified and enlightened our spirits like the influence of Heaven ; this is...pursuing of the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less the founders of our true liberty. We can grow ignorant again,... | |
| Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1810 - 470 pages
...liberty, '*. which is the nurse of all great wits : this is that f' which hath rarefied and enlightened our spirits " like the influence of heaven; this is...which " hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our appret t hensions, degrees above themselves. Ye cannot " make as now less capable, less knowing, less... | |
| Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...influence of heaven ; this is that which " huLn enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our appre" hensions, degrees above themselves. Ye cannot " make us now less capable, less knowing, less eagerly ie pursuing the truth, unless ye first make yourselves, " that made us so, less the lovers, less the... | |
| Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...which is the nurse of all great wits -. this is that which hath rarified and enlightened (.inspirits, like the influence of Heaven ; this is that which hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up onr apprehensions degrees above themselves. Ye cannot make us now less capable, less knowing, less... | |
| Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - 1813 - 634 pages
...all great wits : this is that " which hath rarefied and enlightened our spirits like the in" fluence of heaven ; this is that which hath enfranchised,...less capable, less " knowing, less eagerly pursuing the truth, unless ye first " make yourselves, that made us so, less the lovers, less " the founders... | |
| James Ridgway - 1813 - 470 pages
...liberty, " which is the nurse of all great wits: this is that " which hath rarefied and enlightened our spirits " like the influence of heaven ; this...which " hath enfranchised, enlarged, and lifted up our ap" prehensions, degrees above themselves. Ye cannot " make us now less capable, less knowing, less... | |
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