 ... 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 to the force of reason...  The Prose Works of John Milton - Page 92by John Milton - 1848Full view - About this book
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...there, sitting by their stuiious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty the...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
...there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notious and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty,...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
...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 - Theology - 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... | |
 | Theology - 1833 - 422 pages
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 | John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty,...assenting to the force of reason and convincement. 3 67. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ?... | |
 | English periodicals - 1837 - 676 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. We reckon " more than five months yet to harvest; there need not be five weeks, had we " but eyes to... | |
 | Statesmen - 1837 - 430 pages
...heads there, sitting by studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation!" If the courtiers drooped, then, at the last parliament, how much more reason had they to sink down... | |
 | William Jones - 1838 - 696 pages
...there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty,...a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful htlxunvrs, to make a knowing people u nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies?" The following... | |
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