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... The Examiner - Página 1451825Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
| 1830 - 1112 páginas
...kingdoms. " Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is •whereof ye are the governors. A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and discerning spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach of any... | |
| Henry William Herbert - 1840 - 370 páginas
...And wherefore, I would ask you, not ? Consider what we are, and have been—' a nation, not slow nor dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit,...invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to!— a nation, not luxurious nor... | |
| Henry William Herbert, Horace Smith - 1840 - 1020 páginas
...And wherefore, I would ask you, not? Consider what we are, and have been — ' a nation, not slow nor dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit,...invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to!— a nation, not luxurious nor... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1840 - 800 páginas
...Commons of England ! consider what a 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 of any point, the highest that human capacity... | |
| Tracts - 1840 - 514 páginas
...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 of any point, the highest that human capacity... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1841 - 348 páginas
...Commons of England ! consider what a 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 of any point, the highest that human capacity... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1842 - 346 páginas
...Lords and Commons of England ! consider what 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 of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
| William Cooke Taylor - 1842 - 312 páginas
...and Commons of England ! consider what " it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the govern" ors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick , " ingenious, and piercing spirit : acute to invent, sub" tie and sinewy to discourse ; not benenth the reach " of any point the highest that human capacity... | |
| 1842 - 602 páginas
...imitated in Great Britain; « a Nation, » to use the magnificent language of England's great Poet, « not slow and dull, but of a quick, « ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent , subtle and « sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the « highest that human capacity... | |
| George Moody - 1843 - 444 páginas
...No. II. I. Lords and Commons of England 1 consider what a nation it is whereof ye are the governors: a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious,...invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. . . . . What wants there to such... | |
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