 | Charles Symmons - 1810 - 684 pages
...own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...but content with these British islands as my world; whose fortune hath hitherto been, that if the Athenians, as some say, made their small deeds great... | |
 | William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 472 pages
...own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect; that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...country, I in my proportion, with this over and above o being a Christian, might do for mine, not caring to be once named abroad, though, perhaps, I could... | |
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 546 pages
...own citizens throughout this island, in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...but content with these British islands as my world, whose fortune hath hitherto been, that if the Athenians, as some say, made their small deeds great... | |
 | Francis Wrangham - Great Britain - 1816 - 524 pages
...own citizens, throughout this island, in the mother-dialect. That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...but content with these British islands as my world, whose fortune hath hitherto been, that if the Athenians (as some say) made their small deeds great... | |
 | John Milton - 1824 - 414 pages
...' to be celebrated at home for English verse." Our author says in the Preface to Ch. Gov. b. ii. " Not caring to be once " named abroad, though perhaps...content with these British " islands as my world." Prose Works, vol. i. 60. 171. BrUlonicum] In lengthening the. first syllable of this word, contrary... | |
 | George Walker - English prose literature - 1825 - 668 pages
...own citizens throughout this island, in the mother dialect. That what the greatest and chiefest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...of old did for their country, I in my proportion, vvitli this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine ; not caring to be once named abroad,... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 372 pages
...own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect, that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews...but content with these British islands as my world, whose fortune hath hitherto been, that if the Athenians, as some say, made their small deeds great... | |
 | John Milton - 1826 - 476 pages
...contented to be celebrated at home for English verse." Our author says in the Preface to Ch. Gov. B. ii. " Not caring to be once named abroad, though perhaps...but content with these British islands as my world," Prose- Works, vol. i. 60. T. WARTON. Ver. 175. Si me flava comas legat Usa, et potor Alauni,] Usa is... | |
 | Robert Smith - Society of Friends - 1829 - 432 pages
...own citizens throughout this island in the mother dialect, that what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did fur their country, I, in my proportion, with this over and above, of being ;i Christian, might do for... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Intellectuals - 1830 - 452 pages
...written many years before he had begun the composition of his Paradise Lost, he * That is, depredated. announces to us that he had formed with himself "...my proportion, with this over and above of being a Chris^ t iii ii, might do for mine ; not caring to be once named abroad, though perhaps I could attain... | |
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That what the greatest and choicest wits of Athens, Rome, or modern Italy, and those Hebrews of old did for their country, I in my proportion with this over and above of being a Christian, might do for mine... 
