 | Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - Europe - 1868 - 788 pages
...act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float on the waters above your town, is a proof that they are...and incapable of being fitted for action. You well fcnoto, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses , now reposing on their shadows in perfect... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...•waters above your town, is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing oa their shadows in perfect stillness— how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 pages
...inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof...devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on... | |
 | Louis Le Brun, Henri van Laun - 1869 - 290 pages
...inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses above your town is a proof that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, none reposing on... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...the waters above your town, is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous mosses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness, — how soon, upor any call of patriotism,... | |
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - Oratory - 1870 - 420 pages
...inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof...devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, Gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on... | |
 | Ontario. Council of Public Instruction - English language - 1871 - 506 pages
...inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof...devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on... | |
 | Charles Hartley - 1872 - 372 pages
...inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof...devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, Gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1873 - 814 pages
...inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town is a proof...incapable of being fitted for action. You well know how soon one of these stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows with perfect stillness ; how... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 484 pages
...inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof...are devoid of strength and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses now reposing on their... | |
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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 your town, is a proof that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being... 
