 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...  History of American Literature - Page 176by Reuben Post Halleck - 1911 - 431 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1853 - 672 pages
...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 pages
...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, —...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of its martial airs15?' These words, assuredly, " See... | |
 | Rhode Island Institute of Instruction - 1846 - 512 pages
...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 over...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." The extension of the... | |
 | Henry Barnard - 1846 - 486 pages
...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 over...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." The extension of the... | |
 | 1846 - 1028 pages
...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, —...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of its martial airs?"2 These words, assuredly, are not... | |
 | Leitch Ritchie - 1846 - 540 pages
...the earth ; and as for the extent of her territory, to use the felicitous language of Webster, " her morning drumbeat following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of its martial airs." When the author of these volumes... | |
 | 1847 - 724 pages
...indeed not without concern that we feel compelled to state, that the illustrious founders of that " power, which has dotted over the surface of the whole...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,"... | |
 | 1852 - 798 pages
...to think of that far-spread sway, which Daniel Webster so finely expressed when he said, that our " morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company...and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England ; " we may, as Christians, indulge the hope that our religious literature, uniting and consecrating... | |
 | 1847 - 726 pages
...the illustrious founders of that " power, which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe wilh her possessions and military posts — whose morning...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... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1848 - 372 pages
...power, to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, ia not to be compared, — a power which has dotted over...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." This passage is worthy... | |
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