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" Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach... "
Class Book of Prose: Consisting of Selections from Distinguished English and ... - Page 72
by John Seely Hart - 1845 - 372 pages
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Ioannis Wallisii Grammatica linguae Anglicanae: Cui praefigitur, De loquela ...

John Wallis - 1765 - 338 pages
.../b I ^ O jl i - ' т.- т « », • l .. l >• . W t** и Lords and Commons of England, confider what Nation it is whereof Ye are, and whereof Ye are the Governours. A Nation not flow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing fpirit, acute to invent,...
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REMARKS ON JOHNSON'S LIFE OF MILTON.

Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 444 pages
...outward union of cold, and neutrall, and inwardly divided minds. Lords and Commons of England, contfder what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governours : a Nation not flow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing fpirit, acute to invent,...
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Remarks on Johnson's Life of Milton. To which are Added, Milton's Tractate ...

Francis Blackburne - 1780 - 408 pages
...outward union of cold, and neutrall, and inwardly divided minds. Lords and Commons of England, confider what Nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governours : a Nation not flow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing fpirit, acute "to...
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Discourses on Government, Volume 1

Algernon Sidney - 1805 - 522 pages
...knew.) branches, beyond any man I ever knew. He had a particular way of insinuating himself into people, Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governours. A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent,...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 pages
...outward union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds. Lords and commons of England ! confider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not flow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing fpirit ; acute to invent, fubtile and fihewy...
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The Prose Works of John Milton: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1

John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 440 pages
...outward union of cold, and neutral, and inwardly divided minds. Lords and commons of England ! confider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not flow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing fpirit ; acute to invent, fubtile and linewy...
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Flower's Political review and monthly register. (monthly ..., Volume 9

Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...MILTON. [Concluded from p. 176.] Lords and Commons of England ! Consider what nation it is whereof' we are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, hut of a quick, ingenuous, ami piercing spirit ; acute to invent, suhtile and sinewy to discourse,...
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Prose Works ...: Containing His Principal Political and ..., Volume 1

John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...harmony in a church ; not the forced and outward union of and neutral, and inwardly divided minds. Lards and commons of England ! consider what nation it is...to discourse, not beneath the reach of any .point the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in her deepest sciences...
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Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, Volume 26

1848 - 752 pages
...Hamilton may he truly applied the well-known description given by Milton of the English people — ' A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious,...sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.' A memory which seemed to retain all that he ever read...
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Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of ...

John Milton - 1819 - 484 pages
...he beseeches the Parliament to beware of what they do by placing the Press under an Imprimatur — " Lords and Commons of " England ! consider what Nation...a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to in" vent, subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach " of any point the highest that human...
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