 | William Mathews - Orators - 1891 - 468 pages
...or incapable of being titted for action. Yon well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendons masses now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness...soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it wonld assume the likeness of an animated thing. instinct with life and motion — how soon it wonld... | |
 | Henry Lorenzo Jephson - Great Britain - 1892 - 500 pages
...town, is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. " You well know how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing...necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it wore, its swelling plumage... | |
 | Henry Adams - United States - 1890 - 514 pages
...subsiding wave." In addressing the people at Plymouth, he likened England to a line-of-battle ship ; " one of those stupendous masses now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness," but ready at a sign to ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage, to awaken its dormant thunder. Such... | |
 | Joseph Edwards Carpenter - Readers - 1894 - 586 pages
...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, how soon one...stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism w of necessity, it would assume the hkeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion ; how... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1896 - 248 pages
...at Plymouth, in 1823 (Goodrich, p. 874). He is, of course, applying the image to a man-of-war : — "You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous...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 - Great Britain - 1896 - 378 pages
...at Plymouth, in 1823 (Goodrich, p. 874). He is, of course, applying the image to a man-of-war :— "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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1897 - 266 pages
...at Plymouth, in 1823 (Goodrich, p. 874). He is, of course, applying the image to a man-of-war : — "You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous...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 ;... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 446 pages
...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, how soon one...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,... | |
 | Charles Morris - Orators - 1902 - 714 pages
...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, how soon one...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,... | |
 | Thomas Archen, Alfred Thomas Story - Great Britain - 1903 - 416 pages
...fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of these stupendous masses, now reposing ou their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon...patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of au animated being, instinct with Ufe and motion ; how soon it would raffle, as it were, its swelling... | |
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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... 
