Their orators thou then extoll'st as those The top of eloquence — statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; But herein to our Prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of civil government, In... The Atlantic Monthly - Page 3141894Full view - About this book
| John Milton - 1853 - 540 pages
...the value of the Scriptures as teachers of political wisdom, see Paradise Beyained, IV. 353. Their orators thou then extoll'st, as those The top of eloquence,...Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt also chap. xxk. iv. Judges ii. and lii. and Psal. xxxiii. 12. "blessed is the nation whose God is Jehovah."... | |
| Enoch Cobb Wines - 1853 - 652 pages
...the mouth of our Savior, both from their truth and appositeness, deserve to be cited here. " Their orators, thou then extoll'st, as those The top of...of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught and oariost learnt. What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms and lays cities flat.''... | |
| John [prose] Milton - 1853 - 540 pages
...the value of the Scriptures as teachers of political wisdom, see Paradise Regained, IV. 353. Their orators thou then extoll'st, as those The top of eloquence,...unaffected style Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. also chap. xxix. iv. Judges ii. and lii. and Psal. xxxiii. 12. "blessed is the nation whose God is... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 502 pages
...have given additional strength and fresh force to our sage poet's eulogy on the Jewish Prophets ; — As men divinely taught and better teaching The solid...is plainest taught and easiest learnt What makes a natioa happy and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms and lays cities flat. FAX. REG. iv. 354. If there... | |
| Enoch Cobb Wines - 1853 - 672 pages
...the mouth of our Savior, both from their truth and appositeness, deserve to be cited here. " Their orators, thou then extoll'st, as those The top of...statists, indeed, And lovers of their country, as may seem ; Cut herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 554 pages
...deserve to be quoted:— " Their orators thou then extoU'st, as those The top of eloquence:—Statists indeed And lovers of their country as may seem ; But...herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely tanght and better teaching The solid rules of civil government, In their majestic, unaffected style,... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 540 pages
...their truth and from their appositeness to the present subject, well deserve to be quoted : — " Their orators thou then extoll'st, as those The top of eloquence...civil government, In their majestic, unaffected style, Thau all the oratory of Greece and Rome. ' In them is plainest taught and easiest learnt What makes... | |
| John Milton - 1854 - 534 pages
...the aWest critles of modem iimes ired writers. *te are "" •"* " BOOK Iv.] PARADISE REGAINED. 459 " As men divinely taught, and better teaching " The...style, " Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. 360 " In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, " What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so;1... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 900 pages
...thee) eo Unless where mortal virtue is express'd By light of Nature, not in all quite lost.1 Their orators thou then extoll'st, as those The top of eloquence...teaching The solid rules of civil government, In their majestick unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. *a) ( Thick laid Ä9 òàãëìÀ... | |
| John Milton - 1855 - 644 pages
...Bochart, and carried to «" extravagant and even ridiculous length by Huetius and Gale.—W* p burton, But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely...them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat; What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, These only with our... | |
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