 | George Canning, Roger Therry - Great Britain - 1836 - 452 pages
...the waters above your town, is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being Jitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous meases, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness, — how soon, upon any call of patriotism,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...are devoid of strength and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know how soon one of these stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in...necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion ; how soon it would raffle, as it were, its swelling plumage ;... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1837 - 334 pages
...know how soon one of these 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 motion; how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage; how... | |
 | 1840 - 594 pages
...noble simile of a ship, though under a different aspect. " Our present repose is no more a proof of our inability to act, than the state of inertness and...in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing — how soon it would ruffle, as it were,... | |
 | Alexander Fraser Tytler (lord Woodhouselee.) - 1840 - 684 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 on their shadows in perfect stillness—how soon, upon any call of patriotism or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1842 - 326 pages
...how soon one of these stupendous masses, now reposing on*their shadows with 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 motion ; how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage ;... | |
 | Samuel P. NEWMAN - English language - 1843 - 322 pages
...for action. You well know how soon one of these stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows with perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism...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 ;... | |
 | American periodicals - 1872 - 862 pages
...strength and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of these stupendous masses now reposing on their shadows in...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... | |
 | George Canning - 1844 - 646 pages
...waters above your town, is a proof that theyiare devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one...now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness, — housoon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated... | |
 | Caroline Sheridan Norton - English poetry - 1845 - 472 pages
...the waters above your town, is a proof 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... | |
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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... 
