 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1863 - 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...civil government In their majestic unaffected style, l^ian all the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught and easiest learnt What makes... | |
 | William Henry LYTTELTON (Hon.) - 1864 - 60 pages
...these subjects. Milton, in "Paradise Regained," iv. 357, makes our Lord speak of the Prophets — " As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid...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, What ruins kingdoms,... | |
 | John Milton - 1864 - 584 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 538 pages
...— 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...unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. Iu them is plainest taught and easiest learnt "What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so." Par. Rey.... | |
 | Lord Robert Montagu - 1864 - 490 pages
...this truth : he is speaking of the Jewish prophets : — But, herein, to our prophets far beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid...majestic, unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece or Rome. In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so... | |
 | 1904 - 846 pages
...the greatest of all text-books on civil government. Its writers are aptly described by Milton, — "As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of civil government, In thf ir majestic unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rcine. In them is plainest taught... | |
 | John Milton, Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1865 - 708 pages
...civil government, In their majestick unaffected style, Than all the oratory of Greece and Rome. 3co In them is plainest taught, and easiest learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so ; What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat : These only with our law best form a king. So spake the... | |
 | 1865 - 782 pages
...Statists indeed, And lovers of their country, as mnv seem ; But herein to our prophets far beneath As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of civil government, In their majestic, unaf1ected style Than nil the oratory of Greece and Rome. In them is plainest taught and easiest learnt... | |
 | 1909 - 502 pages
...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...learnt, What makes a nation happy, and keeps it so, What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat; These only, with our Law, best form a king." So spake the... | |
 | C. A. Patrides - 1989 - 370 pages
...Statists indeed, And lovers of thir Country, as may seem; But herein to our Prophets farr beneath, As men divinely taught, and better teaching The solid rules of Civil Government In thir majestic unaffected stile Then all the Oratory of Greece and Rome, In them is plainest taught,... | |
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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, What ruins kingdoms, and lays cities flat; These only with our law best form a king. 
