 | George Canning - 1844 - 646 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...present repose is no more a proof of inability to net, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses Hhat Jloat... | |
 | American periodicals - 1872 - 862 pages
...Plymouth, in 1823, before the invention of ironclads : •• The resources created by peace are meaos of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repr.se is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in- which... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 144 pages
...useful and beautiful. Example 2. The following passage is from Canning's speech at Portsmouth ; — " Our present repose is no more a proof of inability...that float in the waters above your town, is a proof that they are devoid of strength and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know how soon one... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1846 - 738 pages
...peace that has since passed has made us so much the more capable of exertion. The resources created in peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources,...to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity on which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof they... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1846 - 636 pages
...appropriate an illustration of his subject. ' Our present repose,' he observed, ' is no more a proof of our inability to act, than the state of inertness and...that float in the waters above your town, is a proof that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action : you well know, gentlemen,... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1846 - 376 pages
...following well-known passage from his speech at Plymouth, in 1823, may be cited as perfect in its kind: " Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, * " Life of WUberforce," v. 217. than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those... | |
 | 1847 - 296 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...those mighty masses that float in the waters above our town, is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action. You... | |
 | George Canning - Great Britain - 1850 - 640 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...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... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton College - 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...that float in the waters above your town, is a proof that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 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 that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know how soon... | |
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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... 
