 ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy, and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a...  The Harvard Classics - Page 2331909Full view - About this book
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 484 pages
...purify the lips of whom he pleases. " When the cheerfulness of the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith...sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated nor drooping to a fatal decay, but casting off the old and wrinkled skin... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 492 pages
...purify the lips of whom he pleases. " When the cheerfulness of the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith...sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated nor drooping to a fatal decay, but casting off the old and wrinkled skin... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...the pertest operations of wit and suhtlety, it argues in what good plight and constitution the hody is ; so when the cheerfulness of the people is so...wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, hut to spare, and to hestow upon the solidest and suhlimest points of controversy and new invention,... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...and vigorous, not only to vital, but to rational faculties, and those in the acutest, and the pertest operations of wit and subtlety, it argues in what...sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the old and wrinkled skin... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1810 - 470 pages
...he pleases. " When the cheerfulness of " the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly 't• up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard ** well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and *' to.b^tow upon the solidest and sublimest poin.ts '« of controversy and new invention, it betokens... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...the chief cause why sects and schisms do so much abound, and true knowledge is kept at a distance. When the cheerfulness of the people is so 'sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewithal to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon the solidest... | |
 | James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 470 pages
...purify the lips of whom he pleases. " When the cheerfulness of " the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly " up, as that it has not only wherewith...sublimest points " of controversy and new invention, it betokens us ** not degenerated nor drooping to a fatal decay, but (c casting off the old and wrinkled... | |
 | Trials - 1817 - 650 pages
...purify the lips of whom he pleases. — " When the cheerfulness of the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith...but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimes! points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated nor drooping to a... | |
 | Theology - 1827 - 684 pages
...constitution the body is; so when the cheerfulness of tlia people is so sprightly up as that it baa not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and...sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the old and wrinkled skinj... | |
 | John Milton - Freedom of the press - 1819 - 464 pages
...and suttlety1, it argues in what good plight and constitution the Body is ; so when the cherfulnesse of the People is so sprightly up, as that it has,...not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and 9 Who when Rome wot nigh besieg'd by Hanibal, being in the City, bought that peece of ground at no... | |
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