 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
 | Eben Edwards Beardsley - 1866
...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... | |
 | David Henry Montgomery - Great Britain - 1915 - 449 pages
...these countries were added to the possessions of Great Britain. Then, as Daniel Webster said, her " morning drum beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours," literally circled " the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England."... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc - 1915
...dotted over the surface of the whole globe her possessions and military 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." (Applause.) He was then looking... | |
 | United States. Congress. Joint Committee on Rural Credits - Agricultural credit - 1916 - 217 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 with one continuous, unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." The first time in our history,... | |
 | James Gibbons - 1916
...one of his speeches in the United States Senate, speaks of England as — "A power which has dotted the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company with th« hours, circles the earth with one continuous... | |
 | Pennsylvania Society of Colonial Governors - United States - 1916
...the whole surface of the globe, with its possessions and military 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;" Speech in US Senate, May 7,... | |
 | Augustus White Long - American prose literature - 1917 - 389 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 drumbeat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous... | |
 | Edwin Du Bois Shurter - Debates and debating - 1917 - 319 pages
...dotted over the surface of the whole globe her possessions and military 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." So, images of individuals... | |
 | John Reinder Pelsma - Elocution - 1918 - 499 pages
...against a power to which Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared; a power that 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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