 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 894 páginas
...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 they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how... | |
 | 1827 - 576 páginas
...state of inertness and inactivity, in which I have seen those mighty masses (the ships in ordinary) 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, how soon one of those stupendous... | |
 | 1828 - 526 páginas
...those means. Our 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...town is a proof that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous... | |
 | 1828 - 628 páginas
...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...town is a proof that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1829 - 270 páginas
...the mountains of Zion." Example 14. The following is from Canning's Speech at Portsmouth, England. "Our present repose is no more a proof of inability...town, is a proof that they are devoid of strength and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know how soon one of those stupendous masses, now... | |
 | Augustus Granville Stapleton - 1831 - 510 páginas
...sufficiency of the credentials which had already been presented. Neither would he allow the Convention between Great Britain and Spain to be considered as...made, Parliament was not to meet for upwards of three months. " and incapable of being fitted out for action. " You well know, Gentlemen, how soon one "of... | |
 | Augustus Granville Stapleton - 1831 - 512 páginas
...means. " Our present repose is no more a proof of " inability to act, than the state of inertness andi " inactivity in which I have seen those mighty " masses...made, Parliament was not to meet for upwards of three months. II 2 " and incapable of being fitted out for action. " You well know, Gentlemen, how soon one... | |
 | 1835 - 436 páginas
...Speaking of the preparation of England to embark in the war against France, he nays : "Our present lepóse is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state...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 of those stupendous... | |
 | Thomas Smart Hughes - 1836 - 492 páginas
...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...town, is a proof that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 334 páginas
...good." Cmeley. EXAMPLE 6. — The following passage is from Canning's Speech at Portsmouth : — " Our present repose is no more a proof of Inability...town, is a proof that they are devoid of strength and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know how soon one of these stupendous masses, now... | |
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Our 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... 
