 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1845 - 482 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 its martial airs15?' These words, assuredly, " See... | |
 | Rhode Island Institute of Instruction - 1846
...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." The extension of the... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1846
...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." The extension of the... | |
 | 1846
...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 its martial airs?"2 These words, assuredly, are not... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1846
...the earth ; and as for the extent of her territory, to use the felicitous language of Webster, " her morning drumbeat following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of its martial airs." When the author of these volumes... | |
 | 1847
...indeed not without concern that we feel compelled to state, that the illustrious founders of that " power, which has dotted over the surface of the whole...following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, encircles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England,"... | |
 | 1852
...to think of that far-spread sway, which Daniel Webster so finely expressed when he said, that our " morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England ; " we may, as Christians, indulge the hope that our religious literature, uniting and consecrating... | |
 | 1847
...the illustrious founders of that " power, which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe wilh her possessions and military posts — whose morning...following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, eucirdes the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England," couldn't... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 360 pages
...purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, ia 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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1848
...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...possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, followmg the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and... | |
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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... 
