 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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...assenting to the force of reason and convincement. * * This is a lively and cheerful presage of our happy success and victory. For as in a body when the... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 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...require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to »eek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 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...assenting to the force of reason and convincement It is a lively and cheerful presage of our happy success and victory. For as in a body when the blood... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - 520 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - 500 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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1866 - 802 pages
...than there be pens and heads there sitting by their studious lamps, nursing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their...a man require more from a nation so pliant and so pure to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - English literature - 1866 - 540 pages
...feally the approaching Reformation. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prône to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such...but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing peoplc, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies? 1. Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant... | |
 | Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 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...trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and 12convincemeut. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge... | |
 | Walter Scott Dalgleish - 1868 - 86 pages
...ADVANCED TEXT-BOOK. ANALYSIS OP STYLE. Exercise 1 (page 41). 1. Exclamation. " A man could require nothing more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge. Nothing but wise and faithful labourers is wanting to such a soil, to make a knowing people, a nation... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1868 - 168 pages
...fitting by their ftudious lamps, mufmg, fearching, revolving new notions and idea's wherewith to prefent, as with their homage and their fealty the approaching Reformation : others as faft reading, trying all things, affenting to the force of reafon and convincement. What could a man... | |
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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... 
