 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 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.... | |
 | David Addison Harsha - Orators - 1857 - 544 pages
...necessary, every month of peace that has since passed has but made us so much the more capable for exertion. The resources created by peace are means of war. In...than the state of inertness and inactivity in which [have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof that they are devoid... | |
 | John Frederick Smith - Great Britain - 1863 - 648 pages
...necessary, every month 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...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... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1858 - 216 pages
...his works are good. 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 Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1858 - 424 pages
...destroyed their equilibrium. — SCOTT. 57. Our present repose is no more proof of inability to net, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which...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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 434 pages
...the subsiding waves.' Or in the speech at Plymouth, in 1823, before the invention of ironclads : — 'The resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we hut accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state... | |
 | 1859 - 782 pages
...one of the blessings of neu173 trality was that the resources created by peace are means of war : — "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, gentlemen,... | |
 | 1859 - 682 pages
...advantages which they possessed, and contributed no less to prolong the contest between them. ROBERTSON. 2. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability...inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses above your town is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action.... | |
 | John Lord - Europe - 1860 - 530 pages
...are not prepared for war. The resources 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 our inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity, in which I have seen those mighty... | |
 | French examination papers - 1863 - 282 pages
...which they possessed , and contributed no less to prolong the contest between them. — (Robertson.} Our present repose is no more a proof of inability...inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses above your town is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action.... | |
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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... 
