... for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated... Materials and Models for Latin Prose Composition - Page 166by John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 361 pagesFull view - About this book
| History - 1824 - 884 pages
...present repose is no more a yroof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and^inactivity, in which I have seen those mighty masses that float...devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their... | |
| England - 1848 - 802 pages
...affords. Hergiant strength slumbers, not sleeps. Our ships of war, in the noble words of Mr Canning, " how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stilluess, — how soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the likeness... | |
| William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1823 - 430 pages
...Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float...devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, Gentlemen, howr soon ons of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1824 - 894 pages
...present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state^of inertness and inactivity, in which I have seen those mighty masses that float...devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their... | |
| History - 1824 - 890 pages
...present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and, inactivity, in which I have seen those mighty masses that float...devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their... | |
| Edmund Burke - History - 1824 - 918 pages
...Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above ycur town, is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well... | |
| Political primer - Great Britain - 1826 - 208 pages
...Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float...devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their... | |
| Books - 1826 - 568 pages
...Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float...devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their... | |
| 1826 - 570 pages
...Our present repose is ho more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float...devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, 'gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their... | |
| Great Britain - 1826 - 216 pages
...Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float...devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their... | |
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