 | Algernon Sidney - 1805 - 522 sider
...but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human...can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in their deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity,... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 446 sider
...can foar to. Therefore the ftudies of learning in her deepeft fciences have been lo ancient, and fo eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and able judgment have been perfuaded, that even the fchool of Pythagoras, and the Perfian wifdom, took, beginning from the old... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - 1806 - 436 sider
...can foar to* Therefore the ftudies of learning in her deepeft fciences have been to ancient, and fo eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and able judgment have been perfuaded, that even the fchool of Pythagoras, and the Perfian wifdom, took beginning from the old... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 sider
...piercing spirit ; acute to invent, suhtile and sinewy to discourse, not heneath the reach of any peint the highest that human capacity can soar to. Therefore...the studies of learning in her deepest sciences have heen so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and ahle judgment have heen... | |
 | Francis Maseres - 1809 - 636 sider
...pur uit of Therefore the ftudies of Learning in her deepeft Sciences *"" have been fo ancient, and fo eminent, among us, that writers of good antiquity and able judgment have been perfuaded, that even the fchool of Pythagoras, and the Ferfian wifdom, took beginning from the old... | |
 | 1848 - 752 sider
...of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to.' A memory which seemed to retain all that he ever read or heard, furnished an inexhaustible storehouse... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 sider
...but of. a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discours, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to3. Therefore the studies of Learning in her deepest Sciences have bin so ancient, and so eminent... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1824 - 408 sider
...but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to." We are not sufficiently dogmatical to believe that our peculiar notions should regulate all the rest... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 sider
...but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. But now, as our obdurate clergy have with violence demeaned the matter, we are become, hitherto, the... | |
 | 1824 - 408 sider
...but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to." We are not sufficiently dogmatical to believe that our peculiar notions should regulate all the rest... | |
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Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, subtle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach... 
