 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...  Selected Essays - Page 75by Abraham Hayward - 1879Full view - About this book
 | Louis Le Brun, Henri van Laun - 1869 - 290 pages
...and contributed no less to prolong the contest between them. EOBERTSON. OUR present repose is no more proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness...inactivity in which I have seen those mighty masses above your town is a proof that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for... | |
 | English literature - 1872 - 612 pages
...the subsiding waves.' Or in the speech at Plymouth, in 1823, before the invention of ironclads : ' The resources created by peace are means of war. In...those mighty masses that float in the waters above yonr town, is a proof that they ore devoid of strength and incapable of being fitted out for action.... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - Latin language - 1875 - 416 pages
...necessary, every month of peace that has since passed has but made us so much the more capable of exertion. The resources created by peace are means of war. In...proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness in which I have seen those mighty masses, that float in the waters above your town, is a proof they... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - American literature - 1876 - 870 pages
...Plymouth in 1823, we extract a short passage containing a fine simile : Ships of the Line in Port. d completely out of the reach of all amusement. The...sitting-room commanded a full view of the stable-yard. I they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen,... | |
 | Richard Claverhouse Jebb - Orators - 1876 - 454 pages
...well-known passage of his speech. speech at Plymouth in 1823 will serve as an illustration : — 1 The resources created by peace are means of war. In...than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I see those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town is a proof that they are devoid of... | |
 | Sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb - Orators - 1876 - 464 pages
...Canning. The well-known passage of his speech at Plymouth in 1823 will serve as an illustration : — ' The resources created by peace are means of war. In...than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I see those mighty masses that float in the waters above your town is a proof that they are devoid of... | |
 | William Mathews - English language - 1878 - 408 pages
...Most of the italicized words are Saxon: * WW Story. " Our present repose is no more a proof of onr inability to act than the state of inertness and inactivity...your town is a proof that they are devoid of strength or incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous... | |
 | Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - Europe - 1876 - 626 pages
...these resources, we but accumulate these means. Our present repose is no more a proof of incapability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity...in which I have seen those mighty masses that float on the waters above your town, is a proof that they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being... | |
 | Sir Isaac Pitman - Shorthand - 1877 - 52 pages
...necessary, every month of peace that has since passed has but made us so much the more capable of exertion. The resources created by peace are means of war. In...that float in the waters above your town, is a proof tbey are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted out for action. You well know, Gentlemen,... | |
 | Harriet Martineau - Great Britain - 1877 - 536 pages
...necessary, every month of peace that has since passed has but made us so much the more capable of exertion. The resources created by peace are means of war. In...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... | |
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