...A nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...can soar to. Therefore the studies of learning in their deepest sciences have been so ancient, and so eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity,...

...divided minds. Lards and commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but...ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any .point the highest that human capacity...

...nation not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to invent, subtile and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of...point the highest that human capacity can soar to.' A memory which seemed to retain all that he ever read or heard, furnished an inexhaustible storehouse...

...Governors: a Nation not slow and dull, " but of a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit; acute to iu" vent, subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach...point the highest that human capacity can soar to." Montesquieu has dedicated more than one Book of his work on Laws to the effects of Climate upon the...

...Imprimatur — " Lords and Commons of " England ! consider what Nation it is whereof ye are and " whereof ye are the Governors : a Nation not slow and dull, "...a quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit ; acute to in" vent, subtle and sinewy to discourse ; not beneath the reach " of any point the highest that human...

...writers of all ages, and especially in our own country ; " a nation," as Milton has described it, " not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to." We are not sufficiently dogmatical to believe that our peculiar notions should regulate all the rest...

...KINGDOM, BY ONE OF THE PEOPLE. " Lords and Commons of England, consider what a Nation it is whereof ye are the Governors : a Nation not slow and dull, but...quick, ingenious, and piercing spirit, acute to invent, suttle and sinewy to discourse, not beneath the reach of any point the highest that human capacity...

...writers of all ages, and especially in our own country ; " a nation," as Milton has described it, " not slow and dull, but of a quick, ingenious and piercing...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to." We are not sufficiently dogmatical to believe that our peculiar notions should regulate all the rest...

...inwardly-divided minds. Lords and Commons of England, consider what nation it is whereof ye are, and whereof ye are the governors; a nation not slow and dull, but...eminent among us, that writers of good antiquity and able judgment have been persuaded, that even the school of Pythagoras and the Persian wisdom took beginning...

...addressing its rulers, said, " Lords and Commons of England ! consider what nation it is whereof ye are the governors : a nation not slow and dull, but...point, the highest that human capacity can soar to." Such a nation did he (lord L.) think Ireland was. He besought the House to remember, that over this...