 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 - Стр. 3761826Полный просмотр - Подробнее о книге
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1842 - Страниц: 326
...14. The following is from Canning's speech at Portsmouth, England : "Our present repose is no more proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness...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... | |
 | Samuel P. NEWMAN - 1843 - Страниц: 322
...Our present repose is no more proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactrvity, 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... | |
 | 1872 - Страниц: 862
...are meaos of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repr.se is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state...that float in the 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,... | |
 | George Canning - 1844 - Страниц: 646
...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...present repose is no more a proof of inability to net, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses Hhat Jloat... | |
 | 1845 - Страниц: 694
...extract, take the famous simile of the ship : — 'The resources created by peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources we but accumulate those...are 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... | |
 | Caroline Sheridan Norton - 1845 - Страниц: 472
...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... | |
 | Robert Bell - 1846 - Страниц: 396
...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...devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing in... | |
 | Richard Hiley - 1846 - Страниц: 144
...useful and beautiful. Example 2. The following passage is from Canning's speech at Portsmouth ; — " Our present repose is no more a proof of inability...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... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1846 - Страниц: 636
...appropriate an illustration of his subject. ' 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 Cooke Taylor - 1846 - Страниц: 738
...has made us so much the more capable of exertion. The resources created in peace are means of war. In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those...to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity on which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town, is a proof they... | |
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