...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 and convinceraent. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge...

...sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ?'' CRITICAL OBSERVATIONS...

...reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to. . What could a man require from such a nation, so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there more to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people,...

...ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation ; others ns fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement,' Sc.c. T3 It has been more than once remarked, that little mention is made of Milton by hia contemporaries....

...searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation : others, as fast reading,...towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ? We reckon more...

...searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation ; others as fast reading,...assenting to the force of reason and convincement." In a condition of society, to which such a description, even by the most remote allusion, is appropriate,...

...sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies." To those who...

...searching, revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation: others as fast reading,...nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? " Yet in the same wonderful composition he tells us plainly Milton's reconciliation with his wife...

...musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith to present us with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation ; others, as fast, reading,...assenting to the force of reason and convincement." Nor were the royalist party less distinguished for their literary zeal. It was in the midst of the...

...sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point, the highest that human capacity can soar to. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful labourers to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies?" To those who...