 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
 | Alexander Kennedy Isbister - 1870 - 104 pages
...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 Daniel Webster. Ex. 47. Tlie Glory of Britain. Happy Britannia ! where the Queen of Arts, Inspiring... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - 1872 - 386 pages
...military posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circle the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.' On going out of the Senate, one of the members complimented Mr. Webster upon this, saying that he was... | |
 | John Timbs - 1872 - 408 pages
...that power whose morning drum beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, encircle the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." — Stanton's Sketches of Reform and Reformers. 8vo. Dublin, 1850. A similar sentiment will be found... | |
 | Albert Elias Maltby - 1910 - 536 pages
...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." Ch. XXVI. Suspension of Habeas Corpus. — In the summer of 1862, the opponents of the war took every... | |
 | 1904 - 484 pages
...morning drum-beat, following the sun in his course, and keeping pace with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. Webster. THE OCEAN. Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean, roll! Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee... | |
 | Reuben Post Halleck - 1911 - 446 pages
...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." For nearly a generation prior to the Civil War, schoolboys had been declaiming the peroration of his... | |
 | Indiana State Bar Association (1916- ) - 1911 - 386 pages
...; 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." (c) The convention which formulated this wonderful document met in May, 1787, and completed its work... | |
 | Alfred Maurice Low - 1911 - 630 pages
...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." — Webster, Worla, vol. Iv, p. 110. and the Nation to live. The unanswerable proof had been given... | |
 | Sydney George Fisher - 1911 - 588 pages
...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." A large part of Burke's fame rests on his philosophical essays, the famous one on the Sublime and Beautiful,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1912 - 342 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." After being thrilled by this uplifting burst of eloquence, it is a break-neck fall to Dickens's shrewd... | |
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