| 1831 - 702 pages
...be peus and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching, revolving new notious and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage...trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge... | |
| 1832 - 528 pages
...city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with its protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers...homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation." And who will deny the applicability of this description to the present season ? During the last eighteen... | |
| John Milton - 1832 - 328 pages
...and the statesman. In Milton was united for the first and perhaps for the last this vast city, &c. There be pens and heads there sitting- by their studious...ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation ; otlters as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the... | |
| Theology - 1833 - 422 pages
...his protection ; the shops of war hath not more anvils and hammers waking, to fashion out the plates of armed justice in defence of beleaguered truth,...their fealty, the approaching reformation ; others are fast reading, trying all things, apparently, to the force of reason and convincement. What can... | |
| Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1834 - 364 pages
...city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers...trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge... | |
| British literature - 1834 - 532 pages
...London. — Behold now this vast city ; the shop of war hath not there mnre anvils and hammers working, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed...and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, rousing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present us with their homage and fealty,... | |
| Sir James Mackintosh - Great Britain - 1835 - 394 pages
...refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his (God's) protection ; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers...trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge... | |
| John Milton - 1835 - 1044 pages
...a city of refuge, the mansion-house of liberty, encompassed and surrounded with his protection; the shop of war hath not there more anvils and hammers...plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleagured truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by their studious lamps, musing, searching,... | |
| John Milton - 1836 - 448 pages
...hammers working, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleagured truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting...trying all things, 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... | |
| Englishmen - 1836 - 274 pages
...anvils working to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleagured truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting...ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation ; others as fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force... | |
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