...musing, searching, " revolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage " and fealty, the approaching reformation; others as fast...assenting to the force of reason and convincement. We reckon " more than five months yet to harvest ; there need not be five weeks, had we " but eyes...

...hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleagured truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting...trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and couvincement. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge?...

...truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting by that studious temple, musing, searching, resolving new notions and ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and their piety, the approaching reformation Where there is much desire to reason, there of necessity will be...

...hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleagured truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting...trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convinceraent. What could a man require more from a nation so pliant and so prone to seek after knowledge...

...exalted means, that, while " See the Areopagitica, p. 317, ed. Buraet. ' Behold now this vast city, tc. There be pens and heads there sitting by their studious...ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation ; others ns fast reading, trying all things, assenting to the force...

...Areopagitica, p. 317, ed. Burnet. ' Behold now tbi« vatt city, fee. There be pens and heads there Bitting by their studious lamps ; musing, searching, revolving...Ideas wherewith to present, as with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation ; others as fast reading, trying all things, aaxentlng to the force...

...hammers waking, to fashion out the plates and instruments of armed justice in defence of beleagured truth, than there be pens and heads there, sitting...assenting to the force of reason and convincement." In a condition of society, to which such a description, even by the most remote allusion, is appropriate,...

...there, sitting by studious lamps,—musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, wherewith K 2 to present, as with their homage and their fealty, the approaching reformation !''—Pym, p. 7. That a reformation was cruelly needed in these realms, those only can deny, who have...

...musing, searciiin..1', revolving new notions and idcus, wherewith to present us with their homage and fealty, the approaching reformation ; others, as fast,...assenting to the force of reason and convincement." Nor were the royalist party less distinguished for their literary zeal. It was in the midst of the...

...: the many who, to use the words of Milton, " in this great City, the Mansion-house of liberty, are sitting by their studious lamps musing, searching, revolving new notions and ideas, reading, trying all things, assenting to the force of reason and convincement ;" and he well knew that,...