 | Abraham Hayward - Great Britain - 1874 - 484 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....that float in the waters above your town, is a proof that they are devoid of strength and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen,... | |
 | James Mason - Biography - 1875 - 674 pages
...the more capable of exertion. The resources created by peace are means of war: in cherishing these resources, we but accumulate those means. ' Our present...that float in the waters above your town, is a proof that they are devoid of strength and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen,... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - Latin language - 1875 - 416 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...proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness in which I have seen those mighty masses, that float in the waters above your town, is a proof they... | |
 | John Walker Vilant Macbeth - English language - 1875 - 558 pages
...Canning, the English statesman and orator, delivered at Plymouth in 1823: "Our present repose is no more proof of inability to act than the state of inertness...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... | |
 | Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb - Orators - 1876 - 464 pages
...Canning. The well-known passage of his speech at Plymouth in 1823 will serve as an illustration : — ' The resources created by peace are means of war. In...than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I see those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town is a proof that they are devoid of... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - Orators - 1876 - 454 pages
...well-known passage of his speech. speech at Plymouth in 1823 will serve as an illustration : — 1 The resources created by peace are means of war. In...than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I see those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town is a proof that they are devoid of... | |
 | William Mathews - English language - 1878 - 408 pages
...Most of the italicized words are Saxon: * WW Story. " Our present repose is no more a proof of onr inability to act than the state of inertness and inactivity...that float in the waters above your town is a proof that they are devoid of strength or incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen,... | |
 | Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - Europe - 1876 - 626 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... | |
 | Sir Isaac Pitman - Shorthand - 1877 - 52 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...that float in the waters above your town, is a proof tbey are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, Gentlemen,... | |
 | Charles Joseph Sherwill Dawe - 1877 - 392 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...inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses13 that float in the waters about your town is a proof that they are devoid of strength, and... | |
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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... 
