 | William Cobbett - 1823 - 430 páginas
...[Applause.] — In chirisliin" those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of...being fitted for action. You well know, Gentlemen, howr soon ons of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect strllness— ^-hdw... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 918 páginas
...means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 894 páginas
...means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which 1 have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof they are devoid... | |
 | Political primer - 1826 - 208 páginas
...(Applause.) In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of...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... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 páginas
...(Applause.) In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repoie is HO mare a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty manes that float in the waters above your town, is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 648 páginas
...inertness and inactivity in which,' says Mr. Canning — and how apposite to the point in question — ' I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof they arc devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know,' he continues, ' how... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 650 páginas
...eloquent statesman of the day, in allusion to ships of war in ordinary, ' that our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which,' says Mr. Canning — and how apposite to the point in question — ' I have seen those mighty masses... | |
 | George Canning - 1828 - 458 páginas
...means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of...inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses thatjloat in the waters above your town, is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being... | |
 | 1828 - 526 páginas
...those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertnes* 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 fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen,... | |
 | 1828 - 628 páginas
...means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which 1 have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town is a proof that they are devoid... | |
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... 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... 
