 | History - 1824 - 884 pages
...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... | |
 | England - 1848 - 802 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1823 - 430 pages
...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 - History - 1824 - 918 pages
...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... | |
 | History - 1824 - 890 pages
...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 - History - 1824 - 894 pages
...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... | |
 | Books - 1826 - 568 pages
...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... | |
 | Great Britain - 1826 - 216 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1826 - 208 pages
...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 pages
...(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... 
