 As I sat opposite the Treasury Bench the ministers reminded me of one of those marine landscapes not very unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. But the situation...  Blackwood's Magazine - Page 1801920Full view - About this book
 | William Vincent Byars - Orators - 1901 - 610 pages
...unusual on the coast of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. But the situation is still...earthquakes, and ever and anon the dark rumbling of the sea. — (From a speech at Manchester, April 3d, 1872.) Bede, The Venerable (England, 673-735.) The Torments... | |
 | W. V. Byars - Oratory - 1901 - 616 pages
...unusual on the coast of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. But the situation is still...earthquakes, and ever and anon the dark rumbling of the sea. — (From a speech at Manchester, April 3d, 1872.) Bede, The Venerable (England, 673-735.) The Torments... | |
 | David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 480 pages
...unusual on the coast of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame Bickers on a single pallid crest. But the situation is still...earthquakes, and ever and anon the dark rumbling of the sea. — From a speech at Manchester. Eloquence and Loquacity— Pliny the Younger: Eloquence (eloqittntia)... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 468 pages
...unusual on the coast of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. But the situation is still...earthquakes, and ever and anon the dark rumbling of the sea. But, gentlemen, there is one other topic on which I must touch. If the management of our domestic affairs... | |
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1903 - 692 pages
...on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers upon a single pallid crest. But the situation is still...dangerous. There are occasional earthquakes, and ever CHAP. and anon the dark rumblings of the sea. v ' j On midsummer day he essayed at the Crystal Palace... | |
 | Sir Spencer Walpole - Great Britain - 1903 - 356 pages
...unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. But the situation is still dangerous. There are occasional earthquakes, and now and anon the dark rumbling of the sea.' 2 When Parliament resumed its labours after the short Easter... | |
 | John Morley - Great Britain - 1903 - 690 pages
...on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers upon a single pallid crest. But the situation is still...dangerous. There are occasional earthquakes, and ever CHAP. and anon the dark rumblings of the sea. v 'j On midsummer day he essayed at the Crystal Palace... | |
 | Walter Sichel - Great Britain - 1904 - 258 pages
...unusual on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. But the situation is still...earthquakes, and ever and anon the dark rumbling of the sea." Gladstone said with truth that Disraeli's parliamentary wit had never been matched. Disraeli could... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 460 pages
...unusual on the coast of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame flickers on a single pallid crest. But the situation is still...earthquakes, and ever and anon the dark rumbling of the sea. But, gentlemen, there is one other topic on which I must touch. If the management of our domestic affairs... | |
 | Herbert Woodfield Paul - Great Britain - 1905 - 480 pages
...on the coasts of South America. You behold a range of exhausted volcanoes. Not a flame nickers upon a single pallid crest. But the situation is still...occasional earthquakes, and ever and anon the dark rumblings of the sea." A few weeks later, in the month of June, he dipped into the future by recommending... | |
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