 | 1827 - 576 páginas
...the lips of Mr. Canning, three years ago, at a dinner given to him by the Corporation of Plymouth. " Our present repose is no more a proof of inability...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... | |
 | 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 páginas
...Plymouth by the most eloquent statesman of the day, in allusion to ships of war in ordinary, ' that our present repose is no more a proof of inability...than the state of inertness and inactivity in which,' says Mr. Canning — and how apposite to the point in question — ' I have seen those mighty 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 - 648 páginas
...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,... | |
 | 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...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... | |
 | George Canning - 1828 - 458 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 1828 - 498 páginas
...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...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... | |
 | 1828 - 526 páginas
...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 inertnes* and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses that float in the waters above your... | |
 | 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...being fitted for action. You well know how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any... | |
 | 1829 - 476 páginas
...cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose 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 they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how... | |
 | Robert Huish - 1830 - 466 páginas
...Canning at a dinner at which he presided in the town of Plymouth. ' Our present repose,' he said, ' is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state...mighty masses that float in the waters above your town (Plymouth) is a proof that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You... | |
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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... 
