 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...  The Quarterly Review - Sida 482redigerad av - 1827Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
 | 1824 - 884 sidor
...proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing...necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated [147 thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage... | |
 | 1848 - 802 sidor
...affords. Hergiant strength slumbers, not sleeps. Our ships of war, in the noble words of Mr Canning, " how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stilluess, — how soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the likeness... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1823 - 430 sidor
...howr soon ons of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect strllness— ^-hdw soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity,...as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it w»uld put forth 327 NOVEMBER 8, 1823. all its beauty, and its bravery — collect its scattered elements... | |
 | 1824 - 890 sidor
...proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses now reposing...motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its .-.welling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty, and its bravery — collect its... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 894 sidor
...proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing...necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated [147 thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 sidor
...out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how toon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing im their shadows in perfect stillness ; — how soon,...assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct MI'' life and motion ;-—hou soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage;— how quickly... | |
 | 1826 - 570 sidor
...proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, 'gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing...shadows in perfect stillness ;— how soon, upon any csill of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with... | |
 | Political primer - 1826 - 208 sidor
...proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted 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... | |
 | 1827 - 576 sidor
...that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing...how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage;—how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements... | |
 | George Canning - 1828 - 458 sidor
...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 on their shadows in perfect stittness, — how soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the likeness... | |
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