 | John Milton - 1853 - 544 pages
...executing or understanding true civil government. Valiant indeed, and prosperous to win a field ; but to know the end and reason of winning, unjudicious and...well as fruits ; and as wine and oil are imported to ns from abroad, BO must ripe understanding, and many civil virtues, be imported into our minds from... | |
 | Race in literature - 1859 - 408 pages
...Valiant, indeed, and prosperous to win a field ; but to know the end and reason of winning, injudicious and unwise : IN GOOD OR BAD SUCCESS, ALIKE UNTEACHABLE....understanding, and many civil virtues, be imported into our minds from foreign writings and examples. We shall else miscarry still, and come short in the attempts... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...know the end and reason of winning, injudicious and unwise ; in good or bad success alike unteaehable. For the sun, which we want, ripens wits as well as...understanding and many civil virtues be imported into our minds from foreign writings and examples of best ages : we shall else miscarry still, and come... | |
 | Robert Demaus - English literature - 1860 - 580 pages
...valiant, indeed, and prosperous to win a field ; but to know the end and reason of winning, injudicious and unwise ; in good or bad success alike unteachable....understanding and many civil virtues be imported into our minds from foreign writings and examples of best ages : we shall else miscarry still, and come... | |
 | Universalism - 1861 - 692 pages
...What Milton asserted of England two hundred years ago, we may now assert concerning ourselves, that, " as wine and oil are imported to us from abroad, so must ripe understanding and civil virtues be imported into our minds from foreign writings ; we shall else miscarry and come short... | |
 | John [prose Milton (selected]) - 1862 - 396 pages
...executing or understanding true civil government. Valiant indeed, and prosperous to win a field; but to know the end and reason of winning, unjudicious and...understanding, and many civil virtues, be imported into our minds from foreign writings, and examples of best ages; we shall else miscarry still, and come... | |
 | Charles Timothy Brooks - Ballads, German - 1863 - 432 pages
...restrung, for this collection, so many pearls ? NEWPORT, RI, March 15,1842. As wine and oil are imported tn us from abroad, so must ripe understanding, and many civil virtues, be imported into our minds from foreign writings ; — we shall else miscarry still, and come short in the attempts... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - 520 pages
...executing or understanding true civil government. Valiant indeed, and prosperous to win a field ; but to know the end and reason of winning unjudicious and...understanding, and many civil virtues, be imported into our minds from foreign writings, and examples of best ages: we shall else miscarry still, and come... | |
 | John Milton - 1866 - 500 pages
...executing or understanding true civil government. Valiant indeed, and prosperous to win a field ; but to know the end and reason of winning unjudicious and...understanding, and many civil virtues, be imported into our minds from foreign writings, and examples of best ages : we shall else miscarry still, and come... | |
 | John Milton - 1876 - 506 pages
...executing or understanding true civil government. Valiant indeed, and prosperous to win a field ; but to know the end and reason of winning unjudicious and...understanding, and many civil virtues, be imported into our minds from foreign writings, and examples of best ages: we shall else miscarry still, and come... | |
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Valiant indeed, and prosperous to win a field ; but to know the end and reason of winning, unjudicious and unwise : in good or bad success, alike unteachable. For the sun, which we want, ripens wits as well as fruits ; and as wine and oil are imported... 
