 | Hannah Flagg Gould - Children's poetry - 1927 - 328 pages
...epochs of common rhymers would it need to make a counterbalance to the severe oracles of his muse: " In them is plainest taught and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so." The lover of Milton reads one sense in his prose and in his metrical compositions; and sometimes the... | |
 | Ebenezer Carter Tracy - Cherokee Indians - 1845 - 462 pages
...relations of social, civil, and political life, in the spirit of the Hebrew prophets, in whose writings Is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so. According to his views of political economy, it was of little consequence whether the wealth of a community... | |
 | Ebenezer Carter Tracy - Cherokee Indians - 1845 - 462 pages
...relations of social, civil, and political life, in the spirit of the Hebrew prophets, in whose writings In plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so. According to his views of political economy, it was of little consequence whether the wealth of a community... | |
 | John Forster - Great Britain - 1846 - 726 pages
...of civil government, la their majestic, unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so !" After the death of Stratford, public affairs advanced to a crisis rapidly. The gradual disclosures... | |
 | John Forster - Great Britain - 1846 - 738 pages
...In their majestic, unaffected style, Thau all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is ¡daines! taught, and easiest learnt. What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so !" After the death of Straflbrd, public affairs advanced to a crisis rapidly. The gradual disclosures... | |
 | John Milton - 1847 - 604 pages
...government, , In their majestic unaffected style, Than all th' oratory of Greece and Rome. . 380 ii them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What...form a king." So spake the Son of God; but Satan, now , .36* Quite at a loss, for all his darts were spent, , Thus to our Saviour with stern brow replied.... | |
 | Education - 1847 - 508 pages
...rules of civil government In their majestic, unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What...flat ; These only with our law best form a king." S. 321 SCHOOLS AND SCHOOLMASTERS IN GERMANY.— No. VI. (Continued from p. 291). §11. Classification... | |
 | John Milton - 1850 - 704 pages
...plainest taught, and easiest learn'd, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so; PARADISE REGAINED. What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat: These only...form a king." So spake the Son of God: but Satan, now Quite at a loss, (for all his darts were spent,) Thus to our Saviour with stern brow replied: " Since... | |
 | Theology - 1850 - 778 pages
...of civil government, In thejr majestic, unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome ; In them is plainest taught and easiest learnt What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so." They did not intentionally make war upon refined manners, and the blandishments of social life, but... | |
 | Hugh A. Garland - Biography & Autobiography - 1850 - 336 pages
...their young friend and kinsman was a welcome and an attentive listener to those high themes, teaching " What makes a nation happy and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms and lays cities flat." We may well conceive how his bosom dilated, and his eye kindled with unwonted fire, as they narrated... | |
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But herein to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of civil government, In their majestic unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What... 
