 | Edmund Burke - 1894 - 772 pàgines
...all the pomp and circumstance of the war, which for ten years to come desolated the continent, . . . there went on unceasingly that noiseless pressure...silence, when once noted, becomes to the observer the striking and awful mark of the working of sea power." The chapter on the policy of Great Britain in... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1894 - 782 pàgines
...all the pomp and circumstance of the war, which for ten years to come desolated the continent, . . . there went on unceasingly that noiseless pressure...silence, when once noted, becomes to the observer the striking and awful mark of the working of sea power." The chapter on the policy of Great Britain in... | |
 | George Sydenham Clarke Baron Sydenham of Combe, James Richard Thursfield - 1897 - 414 pàgines
...overlooked it when the passage in the text was wrstten. — JRT sea power succeeded the strife of endurance. Amid all the pomp and circumstance of the war which...striking and awful mark of the working of Sea Power. Under it the resources of the Continent wasted more and more with each succeeding year; and Napoleon,... | |
 | 1904 - 770 pàgines
...a noiseless pressure exerted upon the vitals of France : " That compulsion," says Captain Mahan, " whose silence, when once noted, becomes, to the observer,...the most striking and awful mark of the working of seapower " — that power, let me add, exerted even in peace, and as an agency of peace, which compels... | |
 | United Service Institution of India - 1915 - 818 pàgines
...Amid all the pomp and circumstance of the war which for ten years to come desolated the Continent, and all the tramping to and fro over Europe of the French...striking and awful mark of the working of Sea Power." Ever since Nelson's victory Britain has reigned undoubted, and until the last decade, unchallenged... | |
 | Sir Edward Goschen - 1916 - 16 pàgines
...unceasingly that noiseless pressure on the vitals of France, that compulsion whose silence when once noticed becomes to the observer the most striking and awful mark of the working of Sea Power." Do Germans, do neutrals suppose that the British people have such short memories that they can forget... | |
 | Archibald Hurd - 1917 - 16 pàgines
...all the tramping to and fro over Europe of the French Armies and their auxiliary ./• (:i7)¿017 12 legions, there went on unceasingly that noiseless...the most striking and awful mark of the working of sea-power." Throughout 1917 sea-power will continue to be arrayed against Germany and her partners,... | |
 | Archibald Hurd - 1917 - 20 pàgines
...amid all the tramping to and fro over Europe of the French Armies and their auxiliary .r (37)2017 12 t legions, there went on unceasingly that noiseless...once noted, becomes to the observer the most striking ano\ awful mark of the working of sea-power." Throughout 1917 sea-power will continue to be arrayed... | |
 | John Leyland - 1917 - 128 pàgines
...and to exert that noiseless pressure on the vitals of the adversary of which Admiral Mahan speaks — "that compulsion, whose silence, when once noted,...the most striking and awful mark of the working of sea-power." We should have expected the Navy to become the support, in thrust and holding, of the armies... | |
 | Alfred Thayer Mahan - 1918 - 418 pàgines
...armies and their 1 "The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire, Vol. II, p. 181. auxiliary legions, there went on unceasingly that...striking and awful mark of the working of Sea Power. Under it the resources of the Continent wasted more and more with each succeeding year; and Napoleon,... | |
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Amid all the pomp and circumstance of the war which for ten years to come desolated the Continent, amid all the tramping to and fro over Europe of the French armies and their auxiliary legions, there went on unceasingly that noiseless pressure upon the... 
