 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 506 pages
...lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation ; others as fast...? 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... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 490 pages
...lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation ; others as fast...? 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... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 526 pages
...lamps musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation others as fast...? 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... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 322 pages
...; musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation ; others as fast...assenting to the force of reason and convincement,' &c. time, the imagination of the Poet and the belief of the Puritan : of materials so opposite was... | |
 | William Spalding - 1853 - 446 pages
...and heads there sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving uew notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation. * * Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 528 pages
...lamps musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting tij the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 342 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...nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? " Yet in the same wonderful composition he tells us plainly enough, and without any severity of rebuke,... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 350 pages
...notions and ideas." Others were, "as fast reading, trying all things." Milton asks, • Discoveries. " What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge f He truly answers : " wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets,... | |
 | William Spalding - 1854 - 446 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. * * Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puiaaant nation, rousing herself like a strong man after... | |
 | Thomas Keightley - 1855 - 512 pages
...musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation ; others as fast...trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convince uieut. * * * * * . * Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant people, rousing herself... | |
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Justice in defence of beleaguered truth, 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 :... 
