 | Harriet Martineau - Great Britain - 1877 - 536 pages
...were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its...such is England herself; while apparently passive and VOL. i. 2 D motionless, she silently concentrates the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion."... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...scattered elements of strength, and awake its dormant thunder. Such as is one of those magnificent machines atin, not as much as Memento homo quod cinis es, et...cinerem revertería ("Rememher, man, that thou art ashe she silently concentrates the power to be put forth on au adequate occasion. But God forbid that that... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...scattered elements of strength, and awake its dormant thunder. Such as is one of those magnificent machines uences, some revenue may incidentally arise from the...latter. The gentleman asks, when were the colonies she silently concentrates the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion. But God forbid that that... | |
 | Sir Isaac Pitman - Shorthand - 1877 - 52 pages
...were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of those magnificent machines when springing from inaction into a display of its might — • 14 SPEECH... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 516 pages
...bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder ! Such is one of those magnificent machines, when, springing from inaction...might. Such is England herself : while apparently * How happily these words convey to the mind the idea of the resemblance of a ship to a swan ! —... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1878 - 522 pages
...bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder ! Such is one of those magnificent machines, when, springing from inaction...might. Such is England herself : while apparently • How happily these words convey to the mind the idea of the resemblance of a ship to a swan ! —... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - Biography - 1878 - 482 pages
...were, its swelling plumage — how quickly would it put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such as is one of those magnificent machines when springing from inaction into a display of its might — such is England... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1879 - 428 pages
...and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such us is one of these magnificent machines when Springing...motionless, she silently concentrates the power to he put forth on an adequate occasion. Hut God forbid that that occasion should arise. After a war.... | |
 | Robert Chambers - American literature - 1880 - 824 pages
...were, its swelling plumuge — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion. Bnt God forbid that that occasion should arise. After a wnr sustained for nearly a quarter of a century... | |
 | Joseph Angus - English literature - 1880 - 726 pages
...would put forth all its beauty anc its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awakeu its dormant thunder. Such as is one of these magnificent...apparently passive and motionless she silently concentrates her power, to be put forth on au adequate occasion. But God forbid that that occasion should arise... | |
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... 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 ; how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements... 
