 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1869 - 588 pages
...by their (ludious lamps, mufing, fearching, revolving new notions and idea's wherewith to prefent, as with their homage and their fealty the approaching Reformation : others as fail reading, trying all things, affenting to the force of reafon and convincement. What could a man... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 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 convincsment. • • This is a lively and cheerful presage of our happy success and victory. For as... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - English literature - 1870 - 482 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... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1850 - 492 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...approaching reformation ; others as fast reading, trying all thingr-, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. • • This is a lively and cheerful presage... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - Journalism - 1870 - 550 pages
...life, energy, activity, a forth-reaching and progressive spirit. " What," we may exelaim with Milton, "what could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge, — a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - Journalism - 1870 - 558 pages
...energy, activity, a forth-reaching and progressive spirit. " What," we may exclaim with Milton, " wh.et could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge, — -;i nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent,... | |
 | 1870 - 790 pages
...opinions," — " 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 refor' mation," I could not but believe that I might get some certain knowledge by the study of these... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - Journalism - 1870 - 548 pages
...sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach of any point the highest that humau capacity can soar to? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful laborers, to make a knowing people a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies?"* And yet this... | |
 | John Milton, James Augustus St. John - 1871 - 560 pages
...ut qui ntodo linguam Romanam abnueban eloquentiam concupiscerent." — (Tad'. Aqnejl. xxi.)— ED., to present, as with their homage and their fealty,...approaching reformation : others as fast reading, tiying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. f —What CQulia man require... | |
 | Hippolyte Adolphe Taine - 1871 - 556 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. . . . What could a man require more from a nation so pliant, and so prone to seek after knowledge ?... | |
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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... 
