| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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