 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...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...towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful laborers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ? we reckon more... | |
 | 1857 - 476 pages
...sitting bv their studious lamps, •"musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, where" with to present as with their homage and their fealty,...so pliant and so •" prone to seek after knowledge ?" So should a College rejoice in the truth — in all truth, and •seeking to render its pupils rooted... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1857 - 228 pages
...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...reason and convincement. What could a man require more than a nation so pliant, and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly... | |
 | Education - 1856 - 732 pages
...lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their image the approaching reformation. Others as fast, reading,...reason and convincement. What could a man require more than an attention so pliant and so to seek after knowledge 1 What wants to such a towardly and pregnant... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - Sermons, American - 1858 - 468 pages
...than there be pens and heads sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, and revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching future, and others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convinccment."... | |
 | Alonzo Potter - 1858 - 478 pages
...than there be pens and heads sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, and revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching future, and others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement."... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1859 - 604 pages
...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...the force of reason and convincement. What could a "toan require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ?' Yet in the same... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...the licensers. 3 ie, London. EXTRACTS FROM THE "AREOPAOITICA." Ill musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their...trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and conviucement. This is a lively and cheerful presage of our happy success and victory. For as in a body... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 770 pages
...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...fealty, the approaching Reformation : others as fast iQfriftBi trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convi it. "What could a man require... | |
 | Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1859 - 572 pages
...revolving new notions and ideas.' Others were, ' as fast reading, trying all things.' Milton asks, ' AVhat could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ?' He truly answers : ' Wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets,... | |
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... 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 ! others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason... 
