 | Alonzo Potter - 1858 - 478 pages
...pens and heads sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, and revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching future, and others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement."... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - 604 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...the force of reason and convincement. What could a "toan require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ?' Yet in the same... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...ie, London. EXTRACTS FROM THE "AREOPAOITICA." Ill musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their...trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and conviucement. This is a lively and cheerful presage of our happy success and victory. For as in a body... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1859 - 572 pages
...revolving new notions and ideas.' Others were, ' as fast reading, trying all things.' Milton asks, ' AVhat could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ?' He truly answers : ' Wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets,... | |
 | David Masson - 1873 - 770 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 as fast iQfriftBi trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convi it. "What could a man require... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...ie, London. EXTRACTS FROM THE "AREOPAGITICA." Ill musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their...trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and conviucement. This is a lively and cheerful presage of our happy success and victory. For as in a body... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1861 - 622 pages
...and heads there, pitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation." * But in Paris, in 1789, the literary activity was of a very different character from that of London... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 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...trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and conviucement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge... | |
 | Hippolyte Taine - 1863 - 722 pages
...new notions and ideas, wherewith to present with lheir bomage and fealty the approaching Reformation. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant...knowledge? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wife and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sayes, and... | |
 | 1863 - 836 pages
...arises the goodly and the graceful symmetry that commends the whole pile and structure;" and again, " what could a man require more from a Nation so pliant...? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and. faithful labourers, &c.," and lastly, "revolving new notions and ideas to present... | |
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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 :... 
