 | Civil rights - 1795 - 432 pages
...well it's own fiecdom and safety, bu.tt6 spare and to bestow upon the solidest and subjimest points-of controversy, and new invention, it betokens us not...degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, but casting oft" the old and wrinkled skin of corruption; to outr ;Kve'these pangs, and wax young ag^tr*, entering... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Symmons - Poets, English - 1806 - 446 pages
...freedom and fafety, but to f pare, and to beftow upon the folideft and fublimeft points of controverfy and new invention, . it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by cafting off the old and wrinkled fkin of corruption to outlive thefe pangs, and wax young again»... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1811 - 578 pages
...constitution the body is ; so when the cheerfulness of the people is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidcst and sublimest points of controversy and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor... | |
 | John Milton - 1809 - 534 pages
...constitution the body is ; so when the cheerfulness of the people is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and...us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, by casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corruption to outlive these pangs, and wax young again,... | |
 | Francis Maseres - Canada - 1809 - 636 pages
...freedom and fafety, but to fpare, and to bfftow upon the folideft and fublimefl points of controverfy and new invention, it Betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay, decay, by cafting-ofTthe old and wrinkled flcin of corruption, to outlive thcfe pangs, and wax young... | |
 | Thomas Erskine (1st baron.) - 1810 - 478 pages
...as that it lias not only wherewith to guard ff well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and (t to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points "...not degenerated nor drooping to a fatal decay, but ft casting off the old and wrinkled skin of corrup" tion, to outlive these pangs, and wax young " again,... | |
 | Thomas Erskine Baron Erskine - Freedom of the press - 1810 - 470 pages
...the cheerfulness of " the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly 't• up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard ** well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and *' to.b^tow upon the solidest and sublimest poin.ts '« of controversy and new invention, it betokens... | |
 | Elegant extracts - 1812 - 310 pages
...distance. When the cheerfulness of the people is so 'sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewithal to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon the solidest and snblimest points of controversy, and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to... | |
 | Union for Parliamentary Reform According to the Constitution - Great Britain - 1812 - 104 pages
...means." MILTON. '•'• When the People engage in the solidest and sublimest Points of Contro" versy, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal Decay, " but casting off the old wrinkled Skin of Corruption, to outlive these " Pangs, and wax Young again." MILTON. (Price Three Shillings... | |
 | James Ridgway - Freedom of the press - 1813 - 470 pages
...When the cheerfulness of " the people," says this mighty poet, " is so sprightly " up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard " well its own freedom...not degenerated nor drooping to a fatal decay, but (c casting off the old and wrinkled skiu of corrup" tion, to outlive these pangs, and wax young " again,... | |
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... it argues in what good plight and constitution the body is ; so when the cheerfulness of the people is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare, and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest... 
