 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 680 pages
...Her giant strength slumbers, is not dead. Our ships of war, — in the noble words of Mr Canning, " 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 were, its swelling plumage... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1850 - 680 pages
...Her giant strength slumbers, is not dead. Our ships of war, — in the noble words of Mr Canning, " 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 were, its swelling plumage... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - Eton College - 1850 - 528 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...stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness,—how soon, on any call of patriotism or necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated... | |
 | George Canning - Great Britain - 1850 - 634 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...now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness, — hoir soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity, it ivould assume the likeness of an animated... | |
 | George Canning - Great Britain - 1850 - 640 pages
...how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness, — hoir 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... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...for action. You well know how soon one of these stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows with thing', instinct with life and motion ; how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1852 - 814 pages
...out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of these 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 soon... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1853 - 784 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...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... | |
 | William Douglas Hamilton - 1855 - 164 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... | |
 | Archibald Alison - Europe - 1856 - 776 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...stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism or necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life andmotion — how... | |
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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... 
