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
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1862 - 796 Seiten
...generation, in the name of your country, in the name of liberty, to thank you ! ENGLAND. She has dotted the surface of the whole globe with her possessions...following the sun and keeping company with the hours, cirele the earth daily with one continuous and uubroken strain of the martial airs of England. THE... | |
| Epes Sargent - 1862 - 564 Seiten
...power which has dotted over th« surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military poets ; whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping...hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous anj unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. * 183. PEACEABLE SECESSION, 1860. — Webster.... | |
| William Greenough Thayer Shedd - 1863 - 44 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...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England/' It was simply the refusal... | |
| Grenville Kleiser - 1920 - 162 Seiten
...military posts, whose morning drumbeats, 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... | |
| 1920 - 884 Seiten
...possessions — whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping pan- with the hours, encircles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." FINALLY, I may perhaps be allowed a more frivolous extract from tbe rather copious collection of incidents... | |
| James Champlin Fernald - 1921 - 304 Seiten
...be made a reality. We recall the ringing tribute of Daniel Webster to British genius for expansion : "A power which has dotted over the surface of the...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." All these various territories... | |
| James Champlin Fernald - 1921 - 306 Seiten
...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." All these various territories interact and interlock, so that no traveler can pass around the earth... | |
| KATE LOUISE ROBERTS - 1922 - 1422 Seiten
...their road; Only the English make it their abode. WALLER— On a War with Spain. (See also CAMPBELL) 3 . The red plague rid you For learning me your language!...her lip, Nay, her foot speaks; her * Troilus and with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. DANIEL WEBSTER — Speech.... | |
| Ralph Curtis Ringwalt - 1923 - 236 Seiten
...was saying; that Helen's was "a beautiful face." Or, note Webster's famous apostrophe to England : "A power which has dotted over the surface of the...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." In essence, what Webster was... | |
| Judson George Rosebush - 1923 - 218 Seiten
...oil ports of Baku and Batum, the Bagdad railway, Mesopotamia, and the greater part of Arabia. face of the whole globe with her possessions and military...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." Magnificent words these, and... | |
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