 In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State;...  The Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Page 35by Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 312 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...courts, — Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride ! No ! — m&n, — high-minded M&N, — , Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain." Note. ' Concession and Unequal Antithesis.' Ex. " The clouds of adversity may darken over the Christian's... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1844 - 636 pages
...sanctioning, and to magistrates and officers he had a share in controlling. These are principles befitting Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. If we suffer ourselves to be cajoled into adopting the French system, then will England become, what... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1845 - 558 pages
...battlements or labored mound Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities grand, with spires and turrets crowned, No] men, high minded men, Men who their duties know,...But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain" — The people of a State owe allegiance to their constitution. It is the charter of their rights,... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - Military art and science - 1845 - 642 pages
...starr'd and spangled courts, Where low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride, No ; — men ; high-minded men : — Men, who their duties know, But know their...and, knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aim'd Mow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a state." Two regiments of infantry,... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Education - 1845 - 372 pages
...above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. Prevent the long-aimed blow And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These .constitute a State ! And Sovereign... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude : Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain; — These constitute a state ; And... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Education - 1845 - 376 pages
...above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State ! And Sovereign... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude : Men, who their duties know, But know their rights ; and, knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain. These constitute a State; And sovereign... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Education - 1845 - 378 pages
...Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State ! And Sovereign Law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 396 pages
...forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men, who their duties know, Who know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent...while they rend the chain. These constitute a state, And sovereign Law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate. SIR W. JONES. PEACE... | |
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