 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing-, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their...trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convinceraent. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge... | |
 | Sarah Austin - 1839 - 180 pages
...reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to. . What could a man require from such a nation, so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there more to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people,... | |
 | John Milton - 1839 - 518 pages
...ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation ; others ns fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement,' Sc.c. T3 It has been more than once remarked, that little mention is made of Milton by hia contemporaries.... | |
 | Tracts - 1840 - 514 pages
...heads there, sitting by their stu^ dious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their...? 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... | |
 | George Ripley - 1840 - 414 pages
...and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their...assenting to the force of reason and convincement." In a condition of society, to which such a description, even by the most remote allusion, is appropriate,... | |
 | 1840 - 752 pages
...and heads there, sitting by studious lamps, — musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation !' ' — Pym, p. 7. That a reformation was cruelly needed in these realms, those only can deny, who... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1841 - 918 pages
...and heads there sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their...nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? " Yet in the same wonderful composition he tells us plainly Milton's reconciliation with his wife... | |
 | 1841 - 832 pages
...lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present us with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation ; others, as fast,...assenting to the force of reason and convincement." Nor were the royalist party less distinguished for their literary zeal. It was in the midst of the... | |
 | 1842 - 648 pages
...of liberty, are sitting by their studious lamps musing, -searching, revolving new notions and ideas, reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement ;" and he well knew that, before this tribunal, neither declamation nor bold assertion would be of... | |
 | John Milton - 1845 - 572 pages
...and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their...? 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... | |
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Justice in defence of beleaguered truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching Reformation :... 
