 | Charles MacFarlane - 1855 - 520 pages
...resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources we but accumulate those means ; our present repose is no more a proof of inability...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, how... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - Great Britain - 1855 - 520 pages
...resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources we but accumulate those means ; our present repose is no more a proof of inability...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, how... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1856 - 772 pages
...created by peace are the means of war. In cherishing these resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability...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, how... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - Orators - 1857 - 544 pages
...resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability...than the state of inertness and inactivity in which [have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof that they are devoid... | |
 | Thomas Ewing - Elocution - 1857 - 428 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 these stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1863 - 648 pages
...resources created by peace are 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 a state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1858 - 216 pages
...his works are good. Example 2. The following passage is from Canning's speech at Portsmouth : — " Our present repose is no more a proof of inability...being fitted for action. You well know how soon one of these stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 434 pages
...resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we hut accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability...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 Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1858 - 424 pages
...destroyed their equilibrium. — SCOTT. 57. Our present repose is no more proof of inability to net, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which...being fitted for action. You well know how soon one of these stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows with perfect stillness; how soon, upon any call... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Great Britain - 1858 - 794 pages
...resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability...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, how... | |
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The resources created by peace are 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... 
