 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
 | Jacob Bailey Moore - Governors - 1851 - 456 pages
...counsel oldt Than whom a better senator ne'er hold The holm 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... | |
 | John Frost - 1851 - 1058 pages
...pronounces a noble eulogy on him in the soanet which commences, " Vane, young in years, but in sage counsels old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome." L — 35 ~~~ united themselves with Roger Williams and his friends at Providence; and in March, 1638,... | |
 | John Milton - 1851 - 508 pages
...To Sir Henry Vane. VANE, Young in years, but in Sage Councels old, Then whom a better Senator ne're held The Helm of Rome, when Gowns, not Arms, repell'd The fierce Eptrote, and the African bold, Whether to fettle Peace, or to unfold The Drift of hollow States, hard... | |
 | John Milton - 1852 - 350 pages
...gospel is their maw. XVII. TO SIR HENRY VANE THE YOUNGEB.' VANE, young in years, but in sage counsel old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns not arms reThe fierce Epirot and the African bold, [pell'd 7 Darwen} In the printed copies ' Darwent.' Newton.... | |
 | John Milton, George Gilfillan - 1853 - 376 pages
...gospel is their maw. XVII. 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...to settle peace, or to unfold The drift of hollow States1 hard to be spell'd ; Then to advise how War may, best upheld, Move by her two main nerves,... | |
 | John Milton - Milton, John, 1608-1674 - 1853 - 380 pages
...gospel is their maw. XVII. 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...of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repell'd The fierce Bpirot and the African bold ; Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The drift of hollow States1 hard... | |
 | John Milton - 1853 - 372 pages
...gospel is their maw. XVII. 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 of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repell'd 1 ' Broken league : ' the English Parliament held that the Scotch had broken their Covenant by Hamilton's... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...gospel is their maw.* хтп. TO SIR HENRY VANE THE TOUNGER.r VANE, young in years, but in sage counsel old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm...arms, repell'd The fierce Epirot and the African bold : This hemistich originally stood. "And twenty battles more." Such are often onr first thoughts in... | |
 | John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...whose gospel is then: maw. XVI. 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 of Rome, when gowns not arms repelled The fierce Epirot and the African bold; Whether to settle peace, or to unfold In all her equipage;... | |
 | John Milton - Bookbinding - 1855 - 564 pages
...Gospel is their maw. XII. TO SIR HENRY VANE, THE YOUNOER. VANE, young in years, but in sage 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 to settle peace, or to unfold Move by her... | |
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