 | 1824 - 884 σελίδες
...necessary, every month of peace that has since passed has but made us so much the more capable of exertion. The resources created by peace are means of war. In...necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing — instinct with life and motion — how soon it would rufiie, as it were, its swelling plumage... | |
 | 1848 - 802 σελίδες
...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 - 1823 - 430 σελίδες
...howr soon ons of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect strllness— ^-hdw soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing — instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 918 σελίδες
...necessary, every month of peace that has since passed has but made us so much the more capable of exertion. The resources created by peace are means of war. In...necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage... | |
 | 1824 - 890 σελίδες
...necessary, every month of peace that has since passed has but made us so much the more capable of exertion. The resources created by peace are means of war. In...necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 894 σελίδες
...apcumulate those means. 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...necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated [147 thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage... | |
 | 1826 - 568 σελίδες
...so much the more capable of exertion. The resources created by peace are means of war. (Applause.) In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those...necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion ; — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage... | |
 | 1826 - 216 σελίδες
...so much the more capable of exertion. The resources created by peace are means of war. (Applause.) In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those...necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion ; — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage... | |
 | Political primer - 1826 - 208 σελίδες
...so much the more capable of exertion. The resources created by peace are means of war. (Applause.) In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate 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... | |
 | 1826 - 570 σελίδες
...(Applause.) In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is ho more a proof of inability to act, than the state of...shadows in perfect stillness ;— how soon, upon any csill of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with... | |
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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 thing, instinct with life and... 
