Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts ; whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the... Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Page 190by Daniel Webster - 1835Full view - About this book
| 1847 - 724 pages
...posts — whose morning drum-beat, 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," couldn't read, and, à furtiori, couldn't write. But necessity is the parent of invention, and the... | |
| 1847 - 726 pages
...posts — whose morning drum-beat, 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 read, and, à furtiori, couldn't write. But necessity is the parent of invention, and the... | |
| 1852 - 798 pages
...that our " morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England ; " we may, as Christians, indulge the hope that our religious literature, uniting and consecrating... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, ia not to be compared, — a power which has dotted over...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." This passage is worthy the attention of those who think that Mr. Webster is too practical in his system... | |
| Leitch Ritchie - 1848 - 526 pages
...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...earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of its martial airs." When the author of these volumes was invited to prepare a Survey of the British... | |
| 1849 - 396 pages
...the British empire, it has been said by a celebrated orator, that she " has dotted the surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts, whose...unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." The Esquimaux. tures throughout the, world, began, of their own accord, to collect seals' blubber, by way... | |
| Henry Brewster Stanton - 1849 - 412 pages
...that Power, whose morning drum-beat, 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." In a word, she embodies, in her history and policy, in large measure, all the virtues and vices of... | |
| Charles Wainwright March - 1850 - 310 pages
...underneath its plausible disguises, struck at it ; nor did it elude their steady eye, or their well directed blow, till they had extirpated and destroyed it to...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." In reply to the claim of the President, that the Executive had the sole control of the public funds,... | |
| Charles Wainwright March - 1850 - 320 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." In reply to the claim of the President, that the Executive had the sole control of the public funds,... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - 1851 - 434 pages
...raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Koine, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared,...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." This passage is worthy the attention of those who think that Mr. Webster is too practical in his system... | |
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