 | 1824 - 884 páginas
...with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quietly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion. But God forhid that that occasion should arise ! After a war sustained for nearly a quarter of a century... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 918 páginas
...government did not hesitate to proclaim that the country was prepared for war, if war should unfortunately be necessary, every month of peace that has since...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion. But God forbid that that occasion should arise ! After a war sustained for nearly a quarter of ft century... | |
 | 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...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion. But God forbid that that occasion should arise. After a war sustained for nearly a quarter of a century... | |
 | 1824 - 890 páginas
...animated thing — instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its .-.welling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion. But God forbid that that occasion should arise. After a war sustained for nearly a quarter of a century... | |
 | 1826 - 568 páginas
...scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. (Long and continued thuuders of applause.) Such as is one of these magnificent machines when...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion. But God forbid that that occasion should arise. After a war sustained for nearly a quarter of a century... | |
 | 1826 - 216 páginas
...the ears of the unsuspecting inhabitants of Plymouth. thunders of applause ) Such as is one of those magnificent machines when springing from inaction...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion. Rut God forbid that that occasion should arise. After a war sustained for nearly a quarter of a century... | |
 | Political primer - 1826 - 208 páginas
...is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction into a display of its might—such is England herself, while apparently passive and motionless...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion. But God forbid that that occasion should arise. After a war sustained for nearly a quarter of a century... | |
 | 1826 - 570 páginas
...is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction into a display of its might—such is England herself, while apparently passive and motionless...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion. But God forbid that that occasion should arise. After a war sustained for nearly a quarter of a century—sometimes... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 páginas
...machines when springing from inaction into a display of its might — MI, ii is Kngtand herself, white apparently passive and motionless she silently concentrates...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion. But God forbid that that occasion should arise. After a war sustained for nearly a quarter of a century... | |
 | 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 páginas
...scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such,' says he, * as is one of those magnificent machines, when springing from inaction...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion.' ping. The frigate's fire soon silenced every gun on shore ; the enemy, unable to withstand her powerful... | |
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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... 
