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... Littell's Living Age - Page 3161853Full view - About this book
| United States. Congress - 1825 - 734 pages
...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...posts; whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain... | |
| United States. Congress - 1825 - 736 pages
...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...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,... | |
| Alfred Hawkins, John Charlton Fisher - 1834 - 534 pages
...talents and long established fame of the eloquent orator. Mr. Webster eloquently describes GREAT BRITAIN as " a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest...posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain... | |
| Alfred Hawkins - 1834 - 548 pages
...talents and long established fame of the eloquent orator. Mr. Webster eloquently describes GREAT BRITAIN as " a power to which, for purposes of foreign conquest...posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain... | |
| 1835 - 522 pages
...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...posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain... | |
| 1835 - 1040 pages
...this question of principle, while actual suffering was yet afar off, they raised their nag against a power, to which for purposes of foreign conquest...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... | |
| Daniel Webster, James Rees - 1839 - 108 pages
...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...posts, whose morning drum-beat, following the sun and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain... | |
| John Ramsay McCulloch, John Ramsay M'Culloch - 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 - 1840 - 324 pages
...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...posts ; whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain... | |
| William Leggett - 1840 - 324 pages
...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...posts ; whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain... | |
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