...than there be pens and heads there, sitting by that studious temple, musing, searching, resolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their piety, the approaching reformation Where there is much desire to reason, there of necessity will be...

...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...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...

...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,...

...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....

...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...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,...

...; behold the pens 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...

...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...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...

...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...

...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...

...stupendous talent, for good or evil employment, is here entrusted to our Government and people ! " What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers," men who know their duty, and are anxious to fulfil it? To undertake the conquest of India, that we...