 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...  Essays, Political, Historical, and Miscellaneous - Page 481by Archibald Alison - 1850 - 2060 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1824 - 884 pages
...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...elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction into a display of its might... | |
 | 1848 - 802 pages
...it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beanty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of...the flag of Waterloo again be unfurled to the breeze ! A GERMAN DITTY. The following is a very loose imitation of a popular German air. While life's early... | |
 | William Cobbett - 1823 - 430 pages
...ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it w»uld put forth 327 NOVEMBER 8, 1823. all its beauty, and its bravery — collect its scattered...elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. [Loud and continued thunders of apptaise.'J— Such, as is one of these magnificent machines when springing... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 894 pages
...proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses now reposing...elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction 'into a display of its might... | |
 | 1824 - 890 pages
...proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing...elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder." Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction into a display of its might... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 918 pages
...proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses now reposing...elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnifident machines when springing from inaction 'into a display of its might... | |
 | 1826 - 216 pages
...proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing...elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. (Long and continued , tish Ministry to the European Cabinets, through the ears of the unsuspecting... | |
 | 1826 - 568 pages
...proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing...elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. (Long and continued thuuders of applause.) Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing... | |
 | Political primer - 1826 - 208 pages
...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,...elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. (Long and continued tish Ministry to the European Cabinets, through the ears of the unsuspecting inhabitants... | |
 | 1826 - 570 pages
...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 plumage...elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. (Long and continued thunders of applause.) Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing... | |
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