 | Algernon Sidney - 1805 - 522 pages
...pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soile, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing...nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies.... Areopagitica. A speech of John Milton, for the liberty of Unlicenced Printing. (GVARD IT YE BRITONS... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 436 pages
...a nation of prophets, of fagcs, and of worthies ? We reckon more than five months yet to harveft ; there need not be five weeks, had we but eyes to lift wp, the fields are white already. Where there is much defire to learn, there of necefiity XV ill be... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...after knowledge? What wants there to such atowardly and pregnant soil, hut wise and faithful lahourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies f We reckon more than five months yet to harvest; there need not he five weeks, liad we hut eyes to... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1809 - 638 pages
...fo prone to feek after knowledge ? What wants there to fuch a towardly and pregnant foil, but wife and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of fages, and of worthies ? We reckon more than five months yet to liarveft ; there need not be five weeks,... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 484 pages
...seek after Knowledge. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soile, but wise and faithfull labourers, to make a knowing People, a Nation of Prophets, of Sages, and of Worthies. We reck'n more then five months yet to harvest ; there need not be five weeks, had we but eyes to lift... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 pages
...knowledge ? 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 ?" MILTON. Speech for the Liberty ojtlie Press. PREFACE. THESE Letters have been hastily drawn up,... | |
 | 1822 - 576 pages
...knowledge ? 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£*f,.',. MILTON. Speech for the Liberty of the Press. PREFACE. THESE Letters have been hastily... | |
 | 1825 - 608 pages
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 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 pages
...free consciences and Christian liberties into canons and precepts of men. wise and faithful laborers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ? vie reckon more than five months yet to harvest; there need not be five weeks, had we but eyes to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 634 pages
...so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What VOL. xxxvi. NO. LXXI. D wants wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful...people a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ?' It is an easy matter for modem patriots sitting over their claret and filling a bumper to the '... | |
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What could a man require more from a Nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a Nation of Prophets, of Sages, and of Worthies? 
