 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...  The Life, Eulogy, and Great Orations of Daniel Webster - Страница 33написао/ла Daniel Webster - 1854 - 221 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | Harish Trivedi, Richard Allen - 2000 - 404 страница
...Empire 'upon which the sun never sets', or, to use another equally brilliant expression, an Empire 'whose morning drumbeat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, encircles the globe with an unbroken chain of martial airs'. But though there is little that is glorious... | |
 | Clement A. Evans - 2004 - 784 страница
...wave. " Then came the spreading of her territory until now, in the language of Daniel Webster, her "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." No nation has reached, or... | |
 | William Mathews - 2005 - 377 страница
...on her downs and heaths, who can doubt 1 The race so widely dominant, — " whose morning dram-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continual, unbroken stein of the martial airs of England," — is dominant because its institutions... | |
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