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 the... Anecdotes of Public Men - Page 135by John Wien Forney - 1881 - 444 pagesFull view - About this book
| United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 736 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...the surface of the whole globe with her possessions anc] military posts; whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours,... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - Great Britain - 1839 - 760 pages
...and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; which has dotted over the globe with her possessions and military posts ; whose...following the sun and keeping company with the hours, encircles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain." But it is not on her power, nor the extent... | |
| William Leggett - Slavery - 1840 - 324 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...whole globe with her possessions and military posts j whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth... | |
| Stephen Collins - Essays - 1842 - 318 pages
...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... | |
| James De Peyster Ogden - National characteristics, American - 1843 - 40 pages
...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... | |
| American periodicals - 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 - Blacks - 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, —...earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of its martial airs15?' These words, assuredly, " See inthe Appendix, No. III., gions which are under... | |
| Christianity - 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, —...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,... | |
| Leitch Ritchie - Australia - 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...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... | |
| Periodicals - 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,"... | |
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