 | United States. Congress - 1825 - 736 Seiten
...be compared; a power, which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions anc] military posts; whose morning drum-beat, following...earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain ul the martial airs of England. The necessity of holding strictly to the principle upon which free... | |
 | James De Peyster Ogden - 1843 - 40 Seiten
...whom it was eloquently said, " that she had dotted over the map of the earth with her possessions, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circled the earth in one continuous and consecutive strain of the martial airs of England." They foresaw... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1845 - 522 Seiten
...earth's surface M ? Does not the foremost of American orators describe it as 'a power to which Rome, in the height of her glory, was not to be compared,...earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of its martial airs15?' These words, assuredly, " See inthe Appendix, No. III., gions which are under... | |
 | 1846 - 1028 Seiten
...earth's surface ?A Does not the foremost of American orators describe it as " a power to which Rome in the height of her glory, was not to be compared,...earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of its martial airs?"2 These words, assuredly, are not a vain hyperbole, the mere effusions of a glowing,... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1846 - 540 Seiten
...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... | |
 | 1852 - 798 Seiten
...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 with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England ; " we may, as Christians, indulge... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1848 - 526 Seiten
...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... | |
 | Henry Brewster Stanton - 1849 - 412 Seiten
...which sparkles with the very effervescence of poetic beauty, when he spoke of her as " 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."... | |
 | 1867 - 696 Seiten
...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 earth in one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England."— Workt, i v. 111 : ed. 1851.... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 578 Seiten
...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...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. The necessity of holding strictly... | |
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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... 
