 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 pages
...generation, in the name of your country, in the name of liberty, to thank you ! ENGLAND. She has dotted the surface of the whole globe with her possessions...following the sun and keeping company with the hours, cirele the earth daily with one continuous and uubroken strain of the martial airs of England. THE... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1862 - 564 pages
...power which has dotted over th« surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military poets ; whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous anj unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. * 183. PEACEABLE SECESSION,... | |
 | William Greenough Thayer Shedd - 1863 - 44 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...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England/' It was simply the refusal to place the people of the colonies upon the same footing with the people... | |
 | 1920 - 446 pages
...her glory was not to be compared — a power which has dotted the whole surface of the globe with its possessions and military posts, whose morning drumbeat,...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of martial airs.' This is called the most eloquent description... | |
 | Grenville Kleiser - 1920 - 162 pages
...whose morning drumbeats, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circle the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.' On going out of the Senate, one of the members complimented Mr. Webster upon this, saying that he was... | |
 | 1920 - 884 pages
...whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping pan- with the hours, encircles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." FINALLY, I may perhaps be allowed a more frivolous extract from tbe rather copious collection of incidents... | |
 | James Champlin Fernald - 1921 - 304 pages
...be made a reality. We recall the ringing tribute of Daniel Webster to British genius for expansion : "A power which has dotted over the surface of the...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." All these various territories interact and interlock, so that no traveler can pass around the earth... | |
 | KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 pages
...their road; Only the English make it their abode. WALLER— On a War with Spain. (See also CAMPBELL) 3 . The red plague rid you For learning me your language!...foot speaks; her * Troilus and Cressida. Act IV DANIEL WEBSTER — Speech. The Presidential Protest. May 7, 1834. 4 Germany must have her place in... | |
 | Joseph Smith Auerbach - 1922 - 374 pages
...conquest and subrogation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared; a Power which is dotted over the surface of the whole globe, with her...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. Webster, too, in his great argument in the so-called Dartmouth College case, conceded — perhaps it... | |
 | Ralph Curtis Ringwalt - 1923 - 236 pages
...was saying; that Helen's was "a beautiful face." Or, note Webster's famous apostrophe to England : "A power which has dotted over the surface of the...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." In essence, what Webster was saying was that England was "a great military power." Now, the fact that... | |
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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... 
