...ago, thus described the extent of the British possessions: "She has dotted the whole surface of the globe with her possessions and military posts, whose...following the sun and keeping company with the hours, encircles the earth with one unbroken strain of the martial airs of England." The United States rules...

...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...

...military posts, whose the words of the immortal Webster, " has dotted over the whole surmorning drum beat following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strairv of the martial airs of England." " Henry VIII, upon ascending...

...beautiful and striking remark in relation to the extent of the British empire, as follows: ' She has dotted the surface of the whole globe with her possessions...following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circle the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.' On...

...ever — one and inseparable." THE GLORY AND POWER OF GREAT BRITAIN. OUR fathers raised their flag against a power to which, for purposes of foreign...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...

...fibre. 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...and subjugation, Rome, in the height of her glory, 13 not to be compared — a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions...

...and the cricket-matches on her fields and greens, who can doubt ? The race so wildly dominant, — "whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continual, unbroken strain of the martial airs of England," — is dominant because its institutions...

...but also to its extension ; and that the eloquent tribute which Daniel Webster once paid to the power "whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth in one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England," is as true to-day as it was...

...fibre. 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...keeping company with the hours, circles the earth with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England."1 Such is the eloquent description...

...question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they (the Colonies) raised their flag against a power, to which, for purposes of foreign...globe with her possessions and military posts, whose morning-drum beat, 1 He it was that first gave to the law the air of a science. He found it a skeleton,...