 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...  The Life of the Rt. Hon. George Canning - Side 263av Robert Bell - 1846 - 368 siderUten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | 1824 - 884 sider
...fitted for action. 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 [147 thing, instinct with life and motion... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 894 sider
...fitted for action. 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 [147 thing, instinct with life and motion... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 918 sider
...fitted for action. 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 motion —... | |
 | 1824 - 890 sider
...fitted for action. 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 motion —... | |
 | James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 sider
...out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how toon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing im 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 MI'' life and motion ;-—hou... | |
 | 1826 - 568 sider
...fitted for action. 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 motion ; —... | |
 | 1826 - 216 sider
...fitted for action. 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 motion ; —... | |
 | 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 sider
...for action. You well know,' he continues, ' 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 motion —... | |
 | 1827 - 576 sider
...fitted for action. 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 motion ; how... | |
 | George Canning - 1828 - 458 sider
...soon, upon any call of patriotism, or of necessity, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling ptumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravely, collect its scattered elements... | |
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