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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ... - Page 153
1824
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Cobbett's Political Register, Volume 48

William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1823 - 430 pages
...elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. [Loud and continued thunders of apptaise.'J— Such, as is one of these magnificent machines when...springing from inaction into a display of its might — Jitcft is England henelj, while apparently passive and motionless, she silently concentrates the...
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Annual Register, Volume 65

Edmund Burke - History - 1824 - 894 pages
...its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery — collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its...might — such is England herself, while apparently jxwsive and motionless she silently concentrates the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion....
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The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for ...

History - 1824 - 890 pages
...its swelling plumage — how quickly it would put forth all its beauty and its bravery — collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its...might — such is England herself, while apparently )«ssive and motionless she silently concentrates the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion....
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Annual Register, Volume 65

Edmund Burke - History - 1824 - 918 pages
...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 these magnifident machines when springing from inaction 'into a display of its might — such is England...
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The Political Primer; Or, Road to Public Honours

Great Britain - 1826 - 216 pages
...the ears of the unsuspecting inhabitants of Plymouth. thunders of applause ) Such as is one of those magnificent machines when springing from inaction...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion. Rut God forbid that that occasion should arise. After a war sustained for nearly a quarter of a century...
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The National magazine and general review

James Lyon (of Fairhaven, Vermont) - 486 pages
...scattered ttements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. (Loud and continued thunders of applause.) Such as is one of these magnificent machines when...springing from inaction into a display of its might — MI, ii is Kngtand herself, white apparently passive and motionless she silently concentrates the...
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The Political Primer: Or, Road to Public Honours

Political primer - Great Britain - 1826 - 208 pages
...European Cabinets, through the ears of the unsuspecting inhabitants of Plymouth. thunders of applause ) Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction into a display of its might—such is England herself, while apparently passive and motionless she silently concentrates...
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Monthly Review; Or Literary Journal Enlarged

1826 - 570 pages
...scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. (Long and continued thunders of applause.) Such as is one of these magnificent machines when springing from inaction into a display of its might—such is England herself, while apparently passive and motionless she silently concentrates...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 35

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 - English literature - 1827 - 648 pages
...scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such,' says he, * as is one of those magnificent machines, when springing from inaction...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion.' ping. The frigate's fire soon silenced every gun on shore ; the enemy, unable to withstand her powerful...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 35

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 - English literature - 1827 - 650 pages
...scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder. Such,' says he, ' as is one of those magnificent machines, when springing from inaction...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion.' ping. The frigate's fire soon silenced every gun on shore ; the enemy, unable to withstand her powerful...
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