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
| John Davidson - 1866 - 40 pages
...whose morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, encircles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. The third, in having put the last enemy under our feet, and consigned to the grave of oblivion the so-called... | |
| Jeremiah Lewis Diman - 1866 - 726 pages
...morning drum beat, following the sun and keeping company 11 with the hours, encircles the whole earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. " Battle after battle was fought until the power of the Briton was broken forever in America by the... | |
| Henry Martyn Field - 1866 - 410 pages
...whose morning drumbeat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, encircles the whole earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." Was it strange that this mother of nations should reach out her long arms to embrace her distant children... | |
| Edwin Du Bois Shurter - 1909 - 338 pages
...posts, whose 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." Likewise, the striking epithet and the felicitous use of incident in a quick retort are often very... | |
| Albert Elias Maltby - 1910 - 536 pages
...posts; whose morning drumbeat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." Ch. XXVI. Suspension of Habeas Corpus. — In the summer of 1862, the opponents of the war took every... | |
| Indiana State Bar Association (1916- ) - 1911 - 386 pages
...; whose 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." (c) The convention which formulated this wonderful document met in May, 1787, and completed its work... | |
| 1904 - 484 pages
...morning drum-beat, following the sun in his course, and keeping pace with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. Webster. THE OCEAN. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee... | |
| Reuben Post Halleck - 1911 - 446 pages
...posts, whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." For nearly a generation prior to the Civil War, schoolboys had been declaiming the peroration of his... | |
| Alfred Maurice Low - 1911 - 630 pages
...posts, whose 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." — Webster, Worla, vol. Iv, p. 110. and the Nation to live. The unanswerable proof had been given... | |
| Sydney George Fisher - 1911 - 588 pages
...posts, whose 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." A large part of Burke's fame rests on his philosophical essays, the famous one on the Sublime and Beautiful,... | |
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