 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...  The Monthly Review - Страница 3761826Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | Robert Bell - 1846 - 376 страници
...following well-known passage from his speech at Plymouth, in 1823, may be cited as perfect in its kind: " Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, * " Life of WUberforce," v. 217. than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 страници
...but made us so much the more capable of exertion. The resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those...devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on... | |
 | 1847 - 296 страници
...but made us so much the more capable of exertion. The resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those...those mighty masses that float in the waters above our town, is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action. You... | |
 | Caroline Sheridan Norton - 1851 - 468 страници
...in a speech made by Mr. Canning, on being presented with the freedom of the town of Plymouth : — " Our present repose is no more a proof of inability...devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - 1849 - 540 страници
...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...devoid of strength and incapable of being fitted for act ion. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows... | |
 | George Canning - 1850 - 640 страници
...but made us so much the more capable of exertion. The resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those...I have 'seen those mighty masses that float in the loafers above your town, is a proof that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted... | |
 | Edward Shepherd Creasy - 1850 - 532 страници
...well-known seat of our naval power. " Our present repose," he observed, " is no more a proof of our inability to act, than the state of inertness and...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, gentlemen,... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1851 - 1502 страници
...of Hercules could not have destroyed their equilibrium. — SCOTT. 52. Our present repose is no more ey, I warnt ye. Can't ye vine zum work vor me, maester, thease that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know how soon... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1852 - 814 страници
...people of Plymouth, ' is no more a proof of inability 1852.] TA« Slate amd Prospects of Eiigland. to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity...seen those mighty masses that float in the waters about your town is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action.... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1852 - 814 страници
...of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters about 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 of these stupendous masses, now reposing in... | |
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