 | United States. Congress - 1825 - 736 pàgines
...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...the surface of the whole globe with her possessions anc] military posts; whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours,... | |
 | 1835 - 1040 pàgines
...this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their nag against a power, to which for purposes of foreign conquest...glory, is not to be compared — a power which has dot-, ted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - 1839 - 760 pàgines
...the annals of history: "a power," to use the eloquent language of a foreigner, " to which, for the purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome,...in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; which has dotted over the globe with her possessions and military posts ; whose morning drum-beat,... | |
 | William Leggett - 1840 - 324 pàgines
...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...whole globe with her possessions and military posts j whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth... | |
 | Stephen Collins - 1842 - 318 pàgines
...of our population is more happy — better fed and clothed — than millions of the subjects of that "Power, which has dotted over the surface of the whole...following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, daily circles the earth with one unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." The public men of... | |
 | James De Peyster Ogden - 1843 - 40 pàgines
...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... | |
 | 1853 - 672 pàgines
...cannot leave this speech without adding the highly poetic description it contains of England, as " a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest...posts, whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, nnd keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous nnd unbroken strain of the... | |
 | James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1845 - 522 pàgines
...height of her glory, was not to be compared, — a power which has dotted over the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts, —...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 pàgines
...height of her glory, was not to be compared, — a power which has dotted over the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts, —...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 pàgines
...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... | |
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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... 
