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A Practical System of Rhetoric: Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ... - Page 223
by Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 252 pages
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The Ackworth reading book, being selections from the best English authors in ...

Ackworth sch - 1865 - 442 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 out for action. You well know, gentlemen,...
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John Cassell's illustrated history of England. The text, to the ..., Volume 7

Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 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...
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Recitations at Whitnash rectory

Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 pages
...resources created by peace are means of war. In describing these 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 I hare seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof that they are devoid...
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On the Received Text of Shakespeare's Dramatic Writings and Its ..., Volume 2

Samuel Bailey - 1866 - 456 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 the slate of inertness and inactivity in whicli I Lave seen those mighty masses that float in the waters...
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Questions and exercises adapted to Hiley's English grammar, style, and poetry

Richard Hiley - 1867 - 224 pages
...his works are good. Ex. 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...
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A Practical System of Rhetoric: Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ...

Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1834 - 320 pages
...: — ' O •' Our present repose is no more proof of inability to act, than the s'ate of inertnrt^ and inactivity, in which I have seen those mighty...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...
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Historical Characters: Talleyrand, Cobbett, Mackintosh, Canning

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...
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Historical Characters: Talleyrand, Cobbett, Mackintosh, Canning, Volume 2

Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - Europe - 1868 - 472 pages
...these resources, we but accumulate these means. Our present repose is no more a proof of incapability to 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 devoid of strength, and incapable of being...
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Studies in English prose: specimens, with notes, by J. Payne

Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...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 inactivitv in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the •waters above your town, is...
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The public school speaker and reader, ed. by J.E. Carpenter

Joseph Edwards Carpenter - 1869 - 596 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...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...
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