 | 1871 - 588 pages
...regard to the distinguished British brethren present. Daniel Webster once alluded to Great Britain as " a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth in one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." Let each of us who boast that... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...now and for ever — one and inseparable." THE GLORY AND POWER OF GREAT BRITAIN. OUR fathers raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes...subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared—a power which has dotted the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military... | |
 | Joseph Smith Auerbach - Essays - 1914 - 326 pages
...conquest and subrogation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared; a Power which is dotted over the surface of the whole globe, with her...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England. The necessity of holding strictly... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1914 - 626 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 of...in the height of her glory is not to be compared.' But, if the resistance of Ulster is inevitable, similar resistance from Unionists in the rest of the... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1914 - 634 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 of...in the height of her glory is not to be compared.' But, if the resistance of Ulster is inevitable, similar resistance from Unionists in the rest of the... | |
 | John Adam Cramb - Competition, International - 1914 - 184 pages
...extending her imperial power all over the world, so that, as justly described by Webster, she had become "a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military v 509907 posts; whose morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles... | |
 | Joseph Smith Auerbach - Essays - 1914 - 344 pages
...they raised their flag against the Power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subrogation, Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared; a Power which is dotted over the surface of the whole globe, with her possessions and military posts, whose morning... | |
 | Adam Shortt, Sir Arthur George Doughty - Canada - 1914 - 406 pages
...Dominion of Canada. In a way Cook was the greatest of Great Britain's empire-builders. That the British ' morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England ' is largely due to the explorations... | |
 | United States. Congress - Agricultural credit - 1915 - 248 pages
...Empire, long the symbol of illimitable wealth — that mighty power, in the majestic words of Webster, " to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation....her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous,... | |
 | Jennings Cropper Wise - Imperialism - 1915 - 378 pages
...the universe, when what Webster said of England might be applied in his exact words to America — a Power which has dotted over the surface of the whole...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of the United States. ^And yet it is not... | |
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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... 
