... 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
| Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their homage and their fealty tho approaching reformation ; others as fast reading,...trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and couvincement. What coxild a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty,...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... | |
| 1857 - 476 pages
...sitting bv their studious lamps, •"musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, where" with to present as with their homage and their fealty,...so pliant and so •" prone to seek after knowledge ?" So should a College rejoice in the truth — in all truth, and •seeking to render its pupils rooted... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - Education - 1857 - 228 pages
...there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty,...reason and convincement. What could a man require more than a nation so pliant, and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly... | |
| Education - 1856 - 732 pages
...lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present as with their image the approaching reformation. Others as fast, reading,...reason and convincement. What could a man require more than an attention so pliant and so to seek after knowledge 1 What wants to such a towardly and pregnant... | |
| Alonzo Potter - 1858 - 478 pages
...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." Glorious vision of a day, however, that may be overcast—that in England's case was overcast speedily.... | |
| Alonzo Potter - Sermons, American - 1858 - 468 pages
...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 convinccment." Glorious vision of a day, however, that may be overcast — that in England's case was... | |
| Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1859 - 604 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 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
...EXTRACTS FROM THE "AREOPAOITICA." Ill musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty,...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 - Great Britain - 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,... | |
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