 | William Cobbett - 1823 - 430 sayfa
...present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in...being fitted for action. You well know, Gentlemen, howr soon ons of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect strllness— ^-hdw... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 918 sayfa
...present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above ycur town, is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well... | |
 | Political primer - 1826 - 208 sayfa
...present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in...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... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 sayfa
...inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty manes that float in the waters above your town, is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable nf being fitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how toon one of those stupendous masses,... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 650 sayfa
...inertness and inactivity in which,' says Mr. Canning — and how apposite to the point in question — ' I have seen those mighty masses that float in the...incapable of being fitted for action. You well know,' he continues, ' how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1827 - 648 sayfa
...inertness and inactivity in which,' says Mr. Canning — and how apposite to the point in question — ' I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof they arc devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know,' he continues, ' how... | |
 | George Canning - 1828 - 458 sayfa
...act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses thatjloat in 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 masses, now reposing... | |
 | 1828 - 526 sayfa
...present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertnes* and inactivity 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 fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen,... | |
 | 1828 - 628 sayfa
...repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which 1 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 fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen,... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 sayfa
...present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity, 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 fitted for action. You well know how soon one... | |
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... for action. 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... 
