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
| Christianity - 1846 - 1028 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 its martial airs?"2 These words, assuredly, are not... | |
| Leitch Ritchie - 1846 - 524 pages
...for the extent of her territory, to use the felicitous language of Webster, " her morning drumbeat following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of its martial airs." When the author of these volumes... | |
| Periodicals - 1847 - 724 pages
...without concern that we feel compelled to state, that the illustrious founders of that " 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, encircles the earth daily with one... | |
| 1852 - 798 pages
...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... | |
| Edwin Percy Whipple - Literary Collections - 1848 - 372 pages
...conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, ia 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 daily with one... | |
| Leitch Ritchie - Asia - 1848 - 526 pages
...for the extent of her territory, to use the felicitous language of Webster, " her morning drumbeat following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of its martial airs." When the author of these volumes... | |
| 1849 - 396 pages
...has dotted the 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 the martial airs of England." The Esquimaux. tures... | |
| Charles Wainwright March - Lawyers - 1850 - 320 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 daily with one... | |
| Charles Wainwright March - Lawyers - 1850 - 310 pages
...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 daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." In reply to the claim... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 578 pages
...conquest and subjugation, Home, 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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