 | 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
...inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof they are 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 shadows in perfect strllness— ^-hdw... | |
 | Political primer - Great Britain - 1826 - 208 pages
...inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being...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... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1827 - 650 pages
...question — ' I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know,' he continues, ' how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness... | |
 | 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 - English literature - 1827 - 648 pages
...— ' 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 soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness... | |
 | George Canning - Great Britain - 1828 - 458 pages
...the waters above your town, is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being jitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one...stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stittness, — how soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the likeness... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1829 - 270 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 on their shadows in perfect stillness — how... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1830 - 474 pages
...inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town (Plymouth) is a proof that they are devoid of strength, and incapable...being fitted for action. You well' know, gentlemen,' said the orator, ' how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1830 - 462 pages
...of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen,' said the orator, ' 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... | |
 | Augustus Granville Stapleton - 1831 - 512 pages
...inability to act, than the state of inertness andi " 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, • At the time this Speech was made, Parliament was not to meet for upwards of three months. II 2... | |
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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... 
