 | 1857 - 398 pages
...grandeur of the British empire—a power, which, to use the eloquent language of Daniel Webster, « has dotted over the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts, whcso morning drum-beat following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily... | |
 | Thomas Francis Marshall - History - 1858 - 486 pages
...topmost hight of pride and grandeur. In the language of the great Senator from Massachusetts, " she had dotted over the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts." In the one hand she held the balance of Europe, and with the other she waved in triumph the scepter... | |
 | Great Lakes (North America) - 1863 - 230 pages
...grandeur of the British empire — a power which, to use the eloquent language of Daniel Webster, ' has dotted over the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts, whose mornings drum-beat following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with... | |
 | Matthew Richey - Canada - 1867 - 36 pages
...whose power and grandeur, (in the words of America's greatest statesman and most powerful orator *) Rome, in the height of her glory, was not to be compared ; and of which one of America's most accomplished and zealous missionaries in the East did not hesitate... | |
 | New-York Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb - Deaf - 1869 - 698 pages
...heighth of her glory is not to be compared ; " a power," which in the words of the immortal Webster, " has dotted over the whole surface of the globe with...her possessions and military posts, whose morning drum beat following the sun, and keeping company with tlie hours, circles the earth with one continuous... | |
 | Arthur Cayley Headlam - Religion - 1878 - 592 pages
...an American statesman described, if with hyperbole yet with genuine enthusiasm and admiration, as ' a power to which Rome in the height of her glory was not to be compared, which has dotted over the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts, whose... | |
 | John Wien Forney - Statesmen - 1881 - 452 pages
...they raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, was 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... | |
 | George Henry Preble - Flags - 1882 - 894 pages
...a power "with which," in Daniel Webster's words, "for purpose* of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, was 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... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - Constitutional history - 1889 - 732 pages
...modern world the groundwork of its systems of law, and the English nation, which gave birth to America, which has " dotted over the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts," and from which all the great nations of our time have borrowed much of their political thought and... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - Political science - 1889 - 720 pages
...modern world the groundwork of its systems of law; and the English nation, which gave birth to America, which has " dotted over the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts," and from which all the great nations of our time have borrowed much of their political thought and... | |
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They raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, was not to be compared, a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military... 
