 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 532 pages
...well-known seat of our naval power. " Our present repose," he observed, " is no more a proof of our inability to act, than the state of inertness and...incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness,... | |
 | George Canning - 1850 - 640 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...I have 'seen those mighty masses that float in the loafers above your town, is a proof that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 pages
...of Hercules could not have destroyed their equilibrium. — SCOTT. 52. Our present repose is no more ey, I warnt ye. Can't ye vine zum work vor me, maester, thease with perfect stillness ; how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the... | |
 | Washington Wilks - 1852 - 384 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... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1852 - 814 pages
...people of Plymouth, ' is no more a proof of inability 1852.] TA« Slate amd Prospects of Eiigland. to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity...seen those mighty masses that float in the waters about your town is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action.... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 1853 - 784 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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | William Douglas Hamilton - 1855 - 164 pages
...Plymouth in 1823, " 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,... | |
 | Archibald Alison - 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... | |
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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... 
