 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 456 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... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1875 - 558 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 those stupendous masses, now reposing in their shadows with perfect stillness — how... | |
 | James Mason - Biography - 1875 - 674 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... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 380 pages
...of inability than the state of inactivity in which I see those mighty ships float in these waters, is a proof that they are devoid of strength and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows... | |
 | Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - Europe - 1876 - 626 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...being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, hoiv soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - Greek orations - 1876 - 454 pages
...of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I see 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... | |
 | Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb - Orators - 1876 - 464 pages
...of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I see 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... | |
 | William Mathews - English language - 1876 - 474 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 that they are devoid of strength or incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 pages
...inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses13 that float in the waters about 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, now reposing on... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...proof of inability than the state of inactivity in which I see those mighty ships float in these waters country \ What must be out for action. You well know how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows... | |
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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... 
