 Then to advise how war may best, upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage; besides, to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learned, which few have done.  Discourses on Government - Page 60by Algernon Sidney - 1805Full view - About this book
 | John Milton - 1839 - 496 pages
...gospel is their maw. XVH. TO SIR HENRY VANE THE YOUNGER.* VANE, young in years, but in sage counsel old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm...African bold, Whether to settle peace, or to unfold 5 The drift of hollow states hard to be spell'd, Then to advise how war may best upheld Move by her... | |
 | John Ward - Clergy - 1839 - 356 pages
...faith and ruthless murder, without dwelling for a moment on the character of its splendid victim, " Than whom a better Senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms repell'd." Vane had, it is true, been excepted in the Act of Indemnity, but the same House of Commons that excepted... | |
 | John Ward - 1839 - 344 pages
...faith and ruthless murder, without dwelling for a moment on the character of its splendid victim, " Than whom a better Senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms repell'd." Vane had, it is true, been excepted in the Act of Indemnity, but the same House of Commons that excepted... | |
 | Jared Sparks - United States - 1839 - 436 pages
...addressed to him the following just tribute of praise. " Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arme, repelled The fierce Epirot, and the African bold, Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The drift... | |
 | Popular literature - 1840 - 480 pages
...old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Home, when gowns, not arms, repelled The flerce Epirot, and the African bold, Whether to settle peace,...or to unfold The drift of hollow states, hard to be spelled, Then to advise, how war may, best upheld, Move by her two great nerves, iron and gold, In... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick Fay - 1841 - 262 pages
...interrupted. " Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Home, when gowns, not arms, repelled The fierce Epirot and the African bold; Whether to...or to unfold The drift of hollow States, hard to be spelled." Milton to Sir Henry Vane the Younger. MR. MORDAUNT LESLIE sat alone in his study. Hitherto... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1847 - 606 pages
...Milton's sonnet as our text, which was sent him July 3, 1652. Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, nor arms, repell'd The fierce Epirote and the African bold. Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The... | |
 | John Frost - United States - 1844 - 494 pages
...pronounces a noble eulogy on him in the sonnet which commences, " Vane, young in years, but in sage counsels old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome." united themselves with Roger Williams and his friends at Providence ; and in March, 1638, by his aid,... | |
 | Alexander Wilson M'Clure - Biography & Autobiography - 1846 - 312 pages
...council old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repelled The fierce Epirot and the African bold ; Whether to...or to unfold The drift of hollow states, hard to be spelled ; Then to advise how War may, best upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all... | |
 | William Newell - Bible - 1846 - 76 pages
...counsel old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repelled The fierce Epirot, and the African bold ; Whether...or to unfold The drift of hollow states, hard to be spelled ; Then to advise how war may, best upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all... | |
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