 | Thomas Chalmers - Presbyterian Church - 1849 - 568 pages
...beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunders. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when...inaction into a display of its might, such is England itself, while apparently passive and motionless, she silently concentrates the power to be put forth... | |
 | Thomas Chalmers - Presbyterian Church - 1849 - 540 pages
...beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunders. Such as is one of these magnificent machines when...inaction into a display of its might, such is England itself, while apparently passive and motionless, she silently concentrates the power to be put forth... | |
 | George Canning - Great Britain - 1850 - 634 pages
...were, its swelling plumage — how quickly it ivould put forth all its beauty and its bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its...power to be put forth on an adequate occasion. But Ggd forbid that that occasion should arise. After a war sustained for near a quarter of a century —... | |
 | William Chauncey Fowler - English language - 1851 - 1502 pages
...bravery, collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunders. Such is one of those adequate occasion. — CANNING. CHAPTER IV. PERSPICUITY. § 656. WHATEVER be the end aimed at by the... | |
 | Washington Wilks - Great Britain - 1852 - 384 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...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion." Such words as these are deeds. And there were more such to be spoken. When the Houses reassembled [February... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1852 - 814 pages
...scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunder : such as one of those magiiificent machines, when springing from inaction into a display...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion.' This is the language we must employ to revive the vigour and patriotism of the country ; this is the... | |
 | Samuel Phillips Newman - English language - 1852 - 324 pages
...bravery; collect its scattered elements of strength, and awaken its dormant thunders. Such is one of those magnificent machines, when springing from inaction...she silently concentrates the power to be put forth 01 adequate occasion." . Example 15. The following ia from the inaugural address of Professor Frisbie:—... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1852 - 814 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 one of those magnificent machines, when springing from inaction into a display of its might, such is... | |
 | Scotland - 1854 - 798 pages
...disposes of a small matter — how, during debate and attack, to use the language of Cunning, he " silently concentrates the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion." No wonder that, when the occasion arrives, he should extort admiration even from his adversaries. Very... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1855 - 520 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...the power to be put forth on an adequate occasion." This was a portion of a speech with which Mr. Canning electrified the people of Plymouth in the course... | |
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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... 
