 | 1842 - 650 pages
...purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared — a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. Our next specimen conveys... | |
 | Stephen Collins - 1842 - 318 pages
...of our population is more happy — better fed and clothed — than millions of the subjects of that "Power, which has dotted over the surface of the whole...following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, daily circles the earth with one unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." The public men of... | |
 | Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle - 1842 - 388 pages
...height of her glory, was not to be compared — a power which has dotted over the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts —...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." After this, pardon a... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly - 1842 - 436 pages
...height of her glory, •was not to be compared; a power which has dotted over the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts: whose...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily, with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." Nor, can the undersigned... | |
 | 1842 - 468 pages
...height of her glory, was not to be compared — a power which has dotted over the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts —...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. Handd and the Serpent.... | |
 | Alexander Simpson - 1843 - 144 pages
...where the morning drum-beat, following the sun and accompanying the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.' " In this line, this ' girdle round the earth," there is yet one great blank—from the Falkland Islands... | |
 | James De Peyster Ogden - 1843 - 40 pages
...whom it was eloquently said, " that she had dotted over the map of the earth with her possessions, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circled the earth in one continuous and consecutive strain of the martial airs of England." They foresaw... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1843 - 248 pages
...whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping pace with the hours, encircles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." After the debate was over, my informant went up to the orator, and said to him, " Webster, your concluding... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 pages
...purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared, — a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." This passage is worthy... | |
 | 1853 - 672 pages
...purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole...posts, whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, nnd keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous nnd unbroken strain of the... | |
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On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted... 
