 ... would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion ; how soon it would ruffle, as it were, its swelling plumage ; how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength,...  The South Devon literary chronicle - Pàgina 2341847Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Henry Lytton Bulwer Baron Dalling and Bulwer - 1868 - 450 pàgines
...springing from inaction into a display of its might, such is England herself; while apparently passionless and motionless, she silently concentrates the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion.'1'' Luckily for Mr. Canning, the circumstances of the country in 1824 enabled him to maintain... | |
 | Louis Le Brun, Henri van Laun - 1869 - 290 pàgines
...life and emotion — how soon it would ruffle as it were its swelling plumage — how quickly would it put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect...forth on an adequate occasion. But God forbid that occasion should arise. GEORGE CANNING. CIVIL SERVICE OF INDIA, 1861. The last of the Incas. PIZARRO... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - 1869 - 420 pàgines
...and its bravery, collect its scattered element:, of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing...she silently concentrates the power to be put forth or an adequate occasion. But God forbid that that occasion should arise. Alter a war sustained for... | |
 | William Smith, Benjamin Nicholas Martin - 1870 - 482 pàgines
...and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing...passive and motionless she silently concentrates the po^CVer to be put forth on an adequate occasion. But God forbid that that occasion should arise. After... | |
 | 1872 - 612 pàgines
...elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when when springing from inaction into a display of its...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion.' Another striking example is his defence and eulogy of Pitt in a speech on the Silk Trade in 1827. The... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - 1873 - 814 pàgines
...bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunders. Such is one of those magnificent machines when springing from inaction...silently concentrates the power to be put forth on ade" quote occasion. — CANNING. SYNTHESIS. 1. Compose a passage which shall contain an Allegory.... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 484 pàgines
...collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of those magnificent machines when springing from inaction...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion.' Another striking example is his reply to the speaker who eulogised Pitt for a temporary departure from... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1874 - 456 pàgines
...collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of those magnificent machines when springing from inaction...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion.' Another striking example is his reply to the speaker -who eulogised Pitt for a temporary departure... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 660 pàgines
...and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing...silently concentrates the power to be put forth on aa adequate CHAPTER IX. NATIONAL PROSPERITY AND THE MONETARY SYSTEM. Agricultural Distress — Proposed... | |
 | John Young Sargent, T. F. Dallin - 1875 - 416 pàgines
...collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of those magnificent machines when springing from inaction...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion. — Canning. CICERO, PMipp. viii. § 11-19. Pro Sestio. § 45-46. VIRGIL, JEn. vi. 845, 854. LIVY,... | |
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