 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...  Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country - Page 149edited by - 1852Full view - About this book
 | 1824 - 884 pages
...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 pages
...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 pages
...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 —... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1824 - 894 pages
...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... | |
 | 1826 - 216 pages
...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 - 568 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1827 - 576 pages
...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... | |
 | 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
...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 —... | |
 | George Canning - 1828 - 458 pages
...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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