| 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
...and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their...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... | |
| 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 - 624 pages
...and heads there, sitting by their stuiious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and 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
...and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notious and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their...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... | |
| 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.... | |
| 1832 - 528 pages
...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... | |
| Bela Bates Edwards - 1833 - 892 pages
...are fast reading, trying all things, apparently, to the force of reason and convinceinent. What can a man require more from a nation, so pliant, and so prone to seek after know* Hist, of Great Britain, Charles I. ch. v. ledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant... | |
| 1833 - 422 pages
...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 ; others are fast reading, trying all things, apparently, to the force of reason and convincement. What can... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their...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... | |
| 1834 - 532 pages
...lamps, rousing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present us with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation : others as fast...knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people a nation of prophet*, of sages, and... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their...? 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... | |
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