 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
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...being fitted out for action. You well know how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on eous elocution, derived it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would... | |
 | William Mathews - 1878 - 464 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... | |
 | Abraham Hayward - 1878 - 482 pages
...fitted out 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 —... | |
 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer.) - 1879 - 256 pages
...out 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 —... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1879 - 428 pages
...out 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... | |
 | George Henry Jennings - 1880 - 842 pages
...fitted out for action. Yon 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 wonld assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion —... | |
 | Great orators - 1881 - 242 pages
...being fitted out for action. You well know how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon any call of patriotism, it would assume the likeness of an animated thing, instinct with life and motion — how soon it would... | |
 | William Mathews - 1882 - 406 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, Us swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its... | |
 | Percy Fitzgerald - 1886 - 516 pages
...fitted out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon...with life and motion — how soon it would ruffle its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its... | |
 | Frank Harrison Hill - 1887 - 266 pages
...out for action. You well know, gentlemen, how soon one of those stupendous masses, now reposing on their shadows in perfect stillness — how soon, upon...instinct with life and motion — how soon it would rufHe, as it were, its swelling plumage ! How quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery,... | |
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