 | 1825 - 398 strani
...riches, nor awed by her power. The sceptre, the mitre, and the coronet, stars? garters, and blue ribbons seem to me poor things for great men to contend for....overshadowing the ocean ; nor her empire grasping the farthest east. It is these, and the price of guilt and blood by which they are maintained, which are... | |
 | 1829 - 414 strani
...riches, nor awed by her power. The sceptre, the mitre, and the coronet, stars, garters, and blue ribbons, seem to me poor things for great men to contend for....overshadowing the ocean ; nor her empire grasping the farthest east. It is these, and the price of guilt and blood by which they are maintained, which are... | |
 | 1829 - 762 strani
...riches, uor awed by her power. The sceptre, the mitre, and the coronet, sta», garters, and blue ribbons, seem to me poor things for great men to contend for. Nor is my admiration awakened by her аптек, mustered for the battles of Europe ; her navies, overshadowing the ocean ; nor her empire,... | |
 | 1834 - 582 strani
...nor awed by her power. The sceptre, the mitre, and the coronet, the stars, garters, and blue ribbons, seem to me poor things for great men to contend for....overshadowing the ocean ; nor her empire, grasping the farthest east. It is these, and the price of guilt and blood by which they are maintained, which are... | |
 | Benjamin Dudley Emerson - 1831 - 356 strani
...riches, nor awed by her power. The sceptre, the mitre, and the coronet, stars, garters, and blue ribbons seem to me poor things for great men to contend for....overshadowing the ocean; nor her empire grasping the farthest east. It is these, and the price of guilt and blood by which they are maintained, which are... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1836 - 652 strani
...awed by her power. The sceptre, the mitre, and the coronet, — stars, garters, and blue ribbons, — seem to me poor things for great men to contend for....overshadowing the ocean ; nor her empire grasping the farthest East. It is these, and the price of guilt and blood by which they are maintained, which are... | |
 | Jonathan Barber - 1836 - 404 strani
...awed by her power. The sceptre, the mitre, and the coronet, stars, garters, and blue ribbons, seetn to me poor things for great men to contend for. Nor...overshadowing the ocean; nor her empire grasping the farthest east. It is these, and the price of guilt and blood by which they are maintained, which are... | |
 | 1837 - 396 strani
...awed by her power. The sceptre, the mitre, and the coronet, — stars, garters, and blue ribbons, — seem to me poor things for great men to contend for....overshadowing the ocean ; nor her empire grasping the farthest East. It is these, and the price of guilt and blood by which they are maintained, which are... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1844 - 392 strani
...fathers ; the pleasant land of their birth has a claim on my heart. It seems to me a classic, nay, a holy land, rich in the memory of the great and good...overshadowing the ocean ; nor her empire grasping the farthest East. It is these, and the price of guilt and blood by which they are maintained, which are... | |
 | Hugh Murray - 1844 - 394 strani
...awed by her power. The sceptre, the mitre, and the coronet —stars, garters, and blue ribands—seem to me poor things for great men to contend for. Nor...overshadowing the ocean ; nor her empire grasping the farthest East. It is these, and the price of guilt and blood by which they are maintained, which are... | |
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The sceptre, the mitre, and the coronet, — stars, garters, and blue ribbons, — seem to me poor things for great men to contend for. Nor is my admiration awakened by her armies, mustered for the battles of Europe ; her navies, overshadowing the ocean... 
