 | Algernon Sidney - 1805 - 522 sayfa
...knowledge. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soile, but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies.... Areopagitica. A speech of John Milton, for the liberty of Unlicenced Printing. (GVARD IT YE BRITONS... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 sayfa
...knowledge ? What wants there to such atowardly 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 than five months yet to harvest; there need not be five weeks, liad we but eyes to lift... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 sayfa
...knowledge ? 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 ? We reckon more than five months yet to harvest ; there need not be five weeks, had we but eyes to... | |
 | John Milton - 1819 - 464 sayfa
...Knowledge. What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soile, but wise and faithfull labourers, to make a knowing People, a Nation of Prophets, of Sages, and of Worthies. We reck'n more then five months yet to harvest ; there need not be five weeks, had we but eyes to lift... | |
 | Abraham John Valpy - 1822 - 580 sayfa
...a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and...People, a Nation of Prophets, of Sages, and of Worthies ?" MILTON. Speech for the Liberty ojtlie Press. PREFACE. THESE Letters have been hastily drawn up,... | |
 | 1822 - 576 sayfa
...a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and...knowing People, a Nation of Prophets, of Sages, and of Worthies£*f,.',. MILTON. Speech for the Liberty of the Press. PREFACE. THESE Letters have been hastily... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 sayfa
...knowledge ? 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 ? We reckon more than five months yet to harvest ; there need not be five weeks, had we but eyes to... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 sayfa
...a man require more from a nation, so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and...people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ? We reckon more than five months yet to harvest ; there need not be five weeks, had we but eyes to... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 368 sayfa
...prelatical tradition of crowding free consciences and Christian liberties into canons and precepts of men. wise and faithful laborers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ? vie reckon more than five months yet to harvest; there need not be five weeks, had we but eyes to... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1827 - 624 sayfa
...knowledge .' 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 ?' It is an easy matter for modern patriots sitting over their claret and filling a bumper to the '... | |
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What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there to such a towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful laborers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies... 
