 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...  Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Page 254by Daniel Webster - 1848Full view - About this book
 | Ohio. General Assembly - 1842 - 436 pages
...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...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." Nor, can the undersigned retrain from expressing the opinion, that our fellow citizens, situated in... | |
 | Alexander Simpson - 1843 - 144 pages
...of possessions and military posts, where the morning drum-beat, following the sun and accompanying the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.' " In this line, this ' girdle round the earth," there is yet one great blank—from the Falkland Islands... | |
 | Charles Daubeny - 1843 - 248 pages
...possessions— whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping pace with the hours, encircles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." After the debate was over, my informant went up to the orator, and said to him, " Webster, your concluding... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1844 - 548 pages
...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...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." This passage is worthy the attention of those who deem t Mr. Webster is too practical in his system... | |
 | Rhode Island Institute of Instruction - 1846 - 512 pages
...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...unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." The extension of the language of England has almost kept pace with the extension of her power. England... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1846 - 486 pages
...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...unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." The extension of the language of England has almost kept pace with the extension of her power. England... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1846 - 524 pages
...extent of her territory, to use the felicitous language of Webster, " her morning drumbeat following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles...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... | |
 | 1846 - 1028 pages
...surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts, — whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles...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,... | |
 | 1847 - 726 pages
...posts — whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, eucirdes the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England," couldn't read, and, à furtiori, couldn't write. But necessity is the parent of invention, and the... | |
 | 1847 - 724 pages
...posts — 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," couldn't read, and, à furtiori, couldn't write. But necessity is the parent of invention, and the... | |
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