 | 1845 - 694 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; how... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1846 - 738 pages
...present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity on which I have seen those mighty masses that float 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 —... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1846 - 636 pages
...in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being...on 'their shadows in perfect stillness, how soon, on any call of patriotism or necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - 144 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 ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage; how... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1846 - 396 pages
...out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing in their shadows, in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated being, instinct with life and motion — how... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 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... | |
 | 1847 - 296 pages
...the waters above our 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 plumagehow... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Presbyterian Church - 1849 - 568 pages
...most glorious of our national spectacles. "Our present repose," he said, "is no more a proof of our inability to act, than the state of inertness and...stillness, how soon, upon any call of patriotism or necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion; how soon... | |
 | Caroline Sheridan Norton - 1851 - 468 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... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Presbyterian Church - 1849 - 540 pages
...above your town, is a proof they are devoid of strength and incapable of being fitted for act ion. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous...stillness, how soon, upon any call of patriotism or necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion ; how soon... | |
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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... 
