 | Algernon Sidney - 1805 - 522 страници
...all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from 4 nation so 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 people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 страници
...reformation ; others as fast reading, trying all things, assorting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant...to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such atowardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1809 - 638 страници
...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 страници
...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 страници
...reformation: others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant...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... | |
 | 1822 - 576 страници
...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... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 страници
...reformation ; others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation, so pliant...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 - 1826 - 368 страници
...reformation ; others as fast reading, trying all tilings, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation, so pliant...wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but Where there is much desire to learn, there of necessity will be much arguing, much writing, many opinions... | |
 | 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 страници
...Reformation:— others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting- to the foroe of reason and convincement ; what could a man require more from a nation so pliant...people a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ?' It is an easy matter for modern patriots sitting over their claret and filling a bumper to the '... | |
 | 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 страници
...— others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement ; what could a man require more from a nation 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... | |
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... 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 ; others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting... 
