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... The Platform: Its Rise and Progress - Page 436de Henry Lorenzo Jephson - 1892Affichage du livre entier - À propos de ce livre
| 1824 - 884 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...accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a yroof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and^inactivity, in which I have seen those mighty... | |
| 1823 - 714 pages
...counted it the means of war. (Applause.) In die- over, and observed, none of your gammon, rishing these resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is no more that is not right, I want a penny more (making the fourpence-halfpenny, which was a proof of our inability... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1824 - 918 pages
...cessary, 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...those mighty masses that float in the waters above ycur town, is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable of being fitted for action. You well... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1824 - 894 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 cherishing those resources, we but apcumulate those means. Our present repose is no more a proof of inability to act, than the state^of... | |
| James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...(Applause.) In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repoie is HO mare a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen those mighty manes that float in the waters above your town, is a proof they are devoid of strength, and incapable... | |
| 1826 - 570 pages
...so much the more capable of exertion. The resources created by peace are means of war. (Applause.) In cherishing those resources, we but accumulate those means. Our present repose is ho more a proof of inability to act, than the state of inertness and inactivity in which I have seen... | |
| 1827 - 576 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
| George Canning - 1828 - 458 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...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 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...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... | |
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