On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted... Essays and Reviews ... - Seite 180von Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 360 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
| 1842 - 650 Seiten
...power, to which for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared — a power which has dotted over...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. Our next specimen conveys an energetic rebuke : — Sir, I see in those vehicles which carry to the... | |
| Sir Richard Henry Bonnycastle - 1842 - 388 Seiten
...height of her glory, was not to be compared — a power which has dotted over the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts —...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." After this, pardon a little military vanity, gentle reader — I am a British soldier, engaged in keeping... | |
| Ohio. General Assembly - 1842 - 436 Seiten
...height of her glory, •was not to be compared; a power which has dotted over the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts: whose...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." Nor, can the undersigned retrain from expressing the opinion, that our fellow citizens, situated in... | |
| 1842 - 468 Seiten
...height of her glory, was not to be compared — a power which has dotted over the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts —...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. Handd and the Serpent. — The first time the serpent was introduced into an orchestra over which Handel... | |
| Stephen Collins - 1842 - 318 Seiten
...of our population is more happy — better fed and clothed — than millions of the subjects of that "Power, which has dotted over the surface of the whole...following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, daily circles the earth with one unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." The public men of... | |
| Alexander Simpson - 1843 - 144 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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... | |
| James De Peyster Ogden - 1843 - 40 Seiten
...whom it was eloquently said, " that she had dotted over the map of the earth with her possessions, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circled the earth in one continuous and consecutive strain of the martial airs of England." They foresaw... | |
| 1853 - 672 Seiten
...power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over...posts, whose morning drumbeat, following the sun, nnd keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous nnd unbroken strain of the... | |
| James Stuart Murray Anderson - 1845 - 522 Seiten
...height of her glory, was not to be compared, — a power which has dotted over the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts, —...earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of its martial airs15?' These words, assuredly, " See inthe Appendix, No. III., gions which are under... | |
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