 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1827 - 624 pages
...than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their stuiious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their...fast reading, trying all things, assenting- to the foroe of reason and convincement ; what could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone... | |
 | 1831 - 702 pages
...be peus and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notious and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage...pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What u-ants there to such a tmrardly and pregnant soil, but WISE AND FAITHFI'L LABOIRERS, to make a knou-ina... | |
 | 1832 - 528 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...homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation." And who will deny the applicability of this description to the present season ? During the last eighteen... | |
 | John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation ; otlters as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement,' &c. 73 It has been more than once remarked, that little mention is made ef Milton by his contemporaries.... | |
 | Bela Bates Edwards - Theology - 1833 - 892 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...their fealty, the approaching reformation ; others are fast reading, trying all things, apparently, to the force of reason and convinceinent. What can... | |
 | English periodicals - 1837 - 676 pages
...musing, searching, " revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage " and fealty, the approaching reformation ; others as fast...assenting to the force of reason and convincement. We reckon " more than five months yet to harvest; there need not be five weeks, had we " but eyes to... | |
 | Statesmen - 1837 - 430 pages
...truth ; 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!" If the courtiers drooped, then, at the last parliament, how much more reason had they to sink down... | |
 | William Jones - 1838 - 696 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...a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful htlxunvrs, to make a knowing people u nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies?" The following... | |
 | 1827 - 630 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...pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What VOL. xxxvi. NO. LX.XI. D wants wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful... | |
 | United States - 1847 - 608 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...reading, trying all things, assenting to the force ot reason and convincement. What could a man require more — from a nation so pliant and so prone... | |
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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... 
