 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 736 pages
...smallest fibre. On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes...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,... | |
 | Religion - 1835 - 1040 pages
...fibre. On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their nag against a power, to which for purposes of foreign...glory, is not to be compared — a power which has dot-, ted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning... | |
 | John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - Great Britain - 1839 - 760 pages
...the annals of history: "a power," to use the eloquent language of a foreigner, " to which, for the purposes of foreign conquest 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 morning drum-beat,... | |
 | William Leggett - Slavery - 1840 - 324 pages
...parade of words. On this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes...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... | |
 | American periodicals - 1853 - 672 pages
...cannot leave this speech without adding the highly poetic description it contains of England, as " a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest...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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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... 
