 | John Milton - 1851 - 606 páginas
...feek after knowledge. What wants there to fuch a towardly and pregnant foile, but wife 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 harveft ; there need not be five weeks, had we but eyes to lift... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 256 páginas
...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? What wants there...a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies I — Metkinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself, like a strong man after... | |
 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 506 páginas
...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 ? What wants there...a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies.'' Thus, indeed, may we truly say of our cities : to be restored to a healthy place in the nation they... | |
 | 1852 - 166 páginas
...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 ? What wants there to such a towardiy and pregnant soil but wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets,... | |
 | George Godfrey Cunningham - 1853 - 528 páginas
...tij the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there...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... | |
 | Charles Knight - 1854 - 350 páginas
...man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge f He truly answers : " wise and faithful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, sages, and worthies."* The " wise and faithful labourers" were scarcely to be found in the civil and... | |
 | Half hours - 1856 - 444 páginas
...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 ? What wants there...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... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton, Walter Bagehot - 1856 - 520 páginas
...to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more than a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge? What wants there...people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ?" ART. IV.— MR. MACAULAY. The History of England, from the Accession of James the Second. By Thomas... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 páginas
...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 ? What wants there...towardly and pregnant soil, but wise and faithful laborers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of snges. and of worthies ? we reckon more... | |
 | American Institute of Instruction - 1857 - 228 páginas
...to the force of reason and convincement. What could a man require more than a nation so pliant, and so prone to seek after knowledge ? What wants there...people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies ? " LECTURE II. THE INTRINSIC NATURE AND VALUE OF LEARNING, AND ITS INFLUENCE UPON LABOR. BY &-EORGE... | |
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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 labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies... 
