...oil ports of Baku and Batum, the Bagdad railway, Mesopotamia, and the greater part of Arabia. face of the whole globe with her possessions and military...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." Magnificent words these, and amply descriptive of the England of 1834, and yet how puny was the Britain...

...cannot but be impressed by the picturesque words of Daniel Webster in describing the British Empire, "whose morning drumbeat, following the sun and keeping...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." But Britishers can derive but a momentary exaltation of pride from this eloquent tribute. It was delivered...

...conditions for sucessful irrigation? 6. Explain Webster's statement, "A power whose morning drum-beat. .. .circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." 7. A few years ago there was a shortage in the flax crop of Ireland. In what way} did this affect the...

...flag; or, as Webster once expressed it, an empire that "has dotted over the surface of the whole globe her possessions and military posts, whose morning...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." So, images of individuals —specific instances—loom up larger in the imagination than those of classes....

...and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, was not to be compared, a power which has dotted the surface of the whole globe with her possessions...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." When friends congratulated...

...Commerce of New- York, that mighty empire, as our own WEKSTKR said of her, « whose morning drum beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours,...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England/' I give you, gentlemen, Her Majesty, the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland, and all her colonies and...

...purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her power, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with...

...military posts; whose morning drumbeat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, encircles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." It would have been well for Webster if he had retired from public life at the end of his first period...

...height of her glory is not to be compared — a power, as Daniel Webster describes it " Which had dotted the surface of the whole globe with her possessions...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." Here, my countrymen, is manifested a courage of an unquestionable type. What had he or his fellow colonists...

...height of her glory is not to be compared — a power, ns Daniel Webster describes it " Which had dotted the surface of the whole globe with her possessions...military posts, whose morning drumbeat, following the sun nnd keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the...