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" Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors: a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach... "
The Prose Works of John Milton - Page 115
by John Milton - 1835 - 976 pages
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Discourses on Government, Volume 1

Algernon Sidney - 1805 - 522 pages
...and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governours. A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity...
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Flower's Political review and monthly register. (monthly ..., Volume 9

Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...piercing spirit ; acute to invent, suhtile and sinewy to discourse, not heneath the reach of any peint the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore...the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have heen so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and ahle judgment have heen...
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Evangelical Magazine and Missionary Chronicle, Volume 26

1848 - 752 pages
...Hamilton may he truly applied the well-known description given by Milton of the English people — ' A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious,...point the highest that human capacity can soar to.' A memory which seemed to retain all that he ever read or heard, furnished an inexhaustible storehouse...
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Areopagitica: A Speech to the Parliament of England, for the Liberty of ...

John Milton - 1819 - 464 pages
...Commons of " England ! consider what Nation it is whereof ye are and " whereof ye are the Governors: a Nation not slow and dull, " but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit; acute to iu" vent, subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach " of any point the highest that human...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 9

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 pages
...writers of all ages, and especially in our own country ; " a nation," as Milton has described it, " not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 19

Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 pages
...PEOPLE. " Lords and Commons of England, consider what a Nation it is whereof ye are the Governors : a Nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity...
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The Pamphleteer, Volume 19

1822 - 576 pages
...a Nation not slow'and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any, point the highest that human capacity can'soar to. But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter, we are become,...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 9

1824 - 408 pages
...writers of all ages, and especially in our own country ; " a nation," as Milton has described it, " not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity...
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The Parliamentary Debates, Volume 12

Great Britain. Parliament - 1825 - 728 pages
...rulers, said, " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity...
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Examples of English Prose: From the Reign of Elizabeth to the Present Time ...

George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors; a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity...
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