 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...  Notes and Queries - Page 2881867Full view - About this book
 | Oliver Prescott Hiller - England - 1857 - 388 pages
...of England's possessions, as is presented in the following splendid passage :—"A Power, which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts; whose morning drumbeat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous... | |
 | Christopher Columbus Andrews - Dakota Territory - 1857 - 232 pages
...the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts — whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of martial music." The company is growing richer every... | |
 | 1857 - 398 pages
...over the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts, whcso morning drum-beat following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of martial music.' The company is growing richer every... | |
 | John Disturnell - Champlain, Lake - 1857 - 412 pages
...over the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of martial music.' The company is growing richer every... | |
 | Commerce - 1858 - 808 pages
...she is. and has been for centuries, the leading power of earth. By means of her commerce, she line dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, and (to use the figure of Webster) " Her morning drums boat following the sun, and keeping pace with... | |
 | John George Hodgins - Canada - 1858 - 142 pages
...to the terriorial greatness and conquests of Great Britain as worthy of " a power which had dotted 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, circled the earth with one continuous... | |
 | Epes Sargent - 1858 - 566 pages
...subjugation, Rome, in the height ot her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over tha 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 daily with one... | |
 | James Loring Baker - Balance of trade - 1859 - 40 pages
...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 globe with her...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." Such is England; and... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Samuel M. Smucker - 1859 - 568 pages
...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 globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - Death notices - 1859 - 662 pages
...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 globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous... | |
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