 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1864 - 462 pages
...more capable of exertion. The resources created by peace are the means of war. In cherishing these resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present...in which I have seen those mighty masses that float iu the waters above your town, is a proof they ate devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...dignified as meritorious, to be deprest as dangerous. F. QUARLES 252. ENGLAND COMPARED TO A SHIP OF WAR. The resources created by peace are means of war. In...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... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Great Britain - 1865 - 512 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...waters above your town is a proof they are devoid 1 The council of Areopagus, at Athens, It was a more meddling council than it was remarkable for its... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1865 - 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... | |
 | Samuel Bailey - 1866 - 456 pages
...collateral metaphor in the description of the objects compared, but none in the statement of the comparison: "The resources created by peace are means of war....repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the slate of inertness and inactivity in whicli I Lave seen those mighty masses that float in the waters... | |
 | Whitnash rectory - 1866 - 478 pages
...the more capable of exertion. The resources created by peace are means of war. In describing these resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present...than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I hare seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof that they are devoid... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1867 - 224 pages
...his works are good. Ex. 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... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...necessary, every month of peace that has since passed has but made us ao much the more capable of exertion. The resources created by peace are means of war. In...inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivitv in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the •waters above your town, is... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1834 - 320 pages
...: — ' O •' Our present repose is no more proof of inability to act, than the s'ate of inertnrt^ and inactivity, in which I have seen those mighty...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... | |
 | Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - Europe - 1868 - 472 pages
...these resources, we but accumulate these means. Our present repose is no more a proof of incapability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity...in which I have seen those mighty masses that float on the waters above your town, is a proof that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being... | |
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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... 
