 | Stephen C. Behrendt - 1983 - 278 páginas
...note struck by Milton in the Areopagitica: 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 soul but wise and faithful laborers to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of... | |
 | John Milton - 1985 - 468 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 towardly 1 " and pregnant soile, but wise and faithfull labourers, to make a knowing people, a Nation of Prophets,... | |
 | Richard D. Brown - 1996 - 280 páginas
...so prone to seek after knowledge," its very soil was so "towardly and pregnant," that it needed only "wise and faithful labourers to make a knowing people,...a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies." Let there be conflict, he said in the midst of civil war: "Where there is much desire to learn, there... | |
 | Nicholas Deakin - 2000 - 370 páginas
...highest that human capacity can soar to ... " 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... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - 2002 - 628 páginas
...to the force of reason and comincement. 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, hut wise and faithful lahourers to make a knowing people, a nation of prophets, of sages, and of worthies?... | |
 | Martina Mittag - 2002 - 280 páginas
...Haven: Yale University Press, 1 953-7 1 . 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 prägnant soil, but wise and faith ful labourers, to make a knowing people, a nation of Prophets, of... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1012 páginas
...to the force of reason and convinccment. 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 lift... | |
 | Juliet Cummins - 2003 - 276 páginas
...assenting to the force of reason and convincement . . . What wants there . . . but wise and faithfull labourers, to make a knowing people, a Nation of Prophets, of Sages, and of Worthies. (CP n: 553-54) The next sentence sounds like a prediction of imminent apocalypse: "We reck'n more then... | |
 | Elizabeth Sauer, Professor of English Elizabeth Sauer - 2005 - 217 páginas
...and convincement ... 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' (CPW, 2:554). The prophetic voice gives way in the conclusion, which is heavily freighted with antimonopolist... | |
 | John Milton - 2005 - 248 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, 148 £peee$ of (gilt, jjofln (gliffon. then there be pens and heads there, fitting by their ftudious... | |
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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... 
