 Then to advise how war may best, upheld, Move by her two main nerves, iron and gold, In all her equipage; besides, to know Both spiritual power and civil, what each means, What severs each, thou hast learned, which few have done.  Discourses on Government - Page 60by Algernon Sidney - 1805Full view - About this book
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1834 - 574 pages
...victims to their unconquerable love of republican liberty. Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repelled The fierce Epirot, and the African bold, Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The drift of... | |
 | Plantagenet - 1835 - 950 pages
...best?" " Decidedly — eh bien ! adieu !" CHAPTER III. Vane, young ru years, but in sasje coancils old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm...unfold The drift of hollow states, hard to be spell'd. Jtfii/M. ON the following day I went to Harrington. I found him in the same place, and as nearly as... | |
 | Charles Wentworth Upham - 1835 - 350 pages
...addressed to him the following just tribute of praise. " Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repelled The fierce Epirot, and the African bold, Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The drift of... | |
 | Jared Sparks - United States - 1835 - 436 pages
...addressed to him the following just tribute of praise. " Vane, young in years, but in sage counsel old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repelled The fierce Epirot, and the African bold, Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The drift of... | |
 | Theodore Sedgwick Fay - New York (N.Y.) - 1835 - 906 pages
...INSIGHT INTO THE CHARACTER OF AN OLD BUT SLIGHT ACQUAINTANCE — A TENDER REVERIE INTERRUPTED. — Than whom a better Senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repelt'd The fierce Epirot, and the African bold; Whether to settle peace, or to unfold The drift of... | |
 | English poetry - 1836 - 558 pages
...whose Gospel is their m»w . TO SIR HENRY VANE, THE YOONOEB. VANE, young in years, but in sage counsel old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome, when gowns, not arms repelled The fierce Epirot and the African bold ; "Whether to settle peace or to unfold The drift of... | |
 | Jared Sparks, James Russell Lowell, Edward Everett, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1836 - 588 pages
...England were not disparaged, but temporarily set aside, for one " young in years, but yet in counsel old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome." When the people called him, hardly a resident of the country, hardly a citizen of age, to the chief magistracy... | |
 | James Grahame - United States - 1836 - 488 pages
...Vane's capacity. Ilisfine sonnet to him begins thus: — " Vane, young in years, but in sage counsels old. Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm of Rome." And ends thus ; — 247 Roger Williams and his friends at Providence ; and, being CHAP, soon after... | |
 | John Milton - 1838 - 496 pages
...gospel is their maw. XVII. TO SIR HENRY VANE THE YOUNGER.* VANE, young in years, but in sage counsel old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm...African bold, Whether to settle peace, or to unfold 5 The drift of hollow states hard to be spell'd, Then to advise how war may best upheld Move by her... | |
 | Statesmen - 1838 - 434 pages
...composed by a learned gentleman, and sent him, July 3. 1652. ' VANE, young in years, but in sage council old, Than whom a better senator ne'er held The helm...of Rome, when gowns, not arms, repell'd The fierce Eperiot and the African bold. * Whether to settle peace or to unfold The drift of hollow states, hard... | |
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