 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
 | Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - 1967 - 630 pages
...wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned. No! men, high minded menMen, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. These constitute a State.29 As I before remarked, this is the dividing line between the Democratic... | |
 | Pennsylvania Bar Association - Bar associations - 1895 - 488 pages
...far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rnde ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. These constitute a State ; And sovereign... | |
 | 1902 - 538 pages
...above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake, or glen, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. ***** These constitute a State.—Hon. BS Rodey, NM IN LIGHTER MOOD. He: "My train goes in fifteen... | |
 | Thomas D'Arcy McGee - Ireland - 1855 - 240 pages
...starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No. MEN, HIGH-MINDED MEM. 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." Such a presentation of the case... | |
 | 1915 - 766 pages
...rocks and brambles rude, Men who their duty know, • And knowing, dare maintain Prevent the long aimed blow And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain These constitute the State." 616 CLASS REUNIONS. The classes of 1886, 1891, 1896, 1901, 1906, 1911 are due to attend... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 1999 - 676 pages
...Thick wall, or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd; No: men, high-minded men; Men, who their duties know; But know their rights; and knowing, dare maintain. These constitute a State." In the General Government, the House of Representatives is mainly republican;... | |
 | Max Radin - Experience - 2000 - 196 pages
...men — are the theme of the law. They should, of course, be according to Sir William Jones's verses, Men who their duties know, But know their rights and knowing, dare maintain.3 But they may just as well be poor and cowardly wretches cadging for their breakfast or cringing... | |
 | James Brown Scott - International law - 2002 - 1046 pages
...moated gate; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crown'd; Not bays and broad-armed ports, . . . No: — Men, high minded men, . . . Men, who their...But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain; . . . These constitute a state. 66 We may and do, of course, speak of a union of territories, but a... | |
 | Lady Maria Callcott - Authors, English - 2003 - 364 pages
...education is wanting before that which essentially constitutes a state will be found; ie Men, high-minded men — Men who their duties know; But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain.52 Hitherto a strong feeling of resentment against past tyranny, on the part of Spain, has... | |
 | Laura Jensen - History - 2003 - 260 pages
...Nor starr'd and spangled courts. Where low-born baseness wafts perfume to pride: But MEN! high-minded men, Who their duties know, but know their RIGHTS, And, knowing, dare maintain them. 109 House Committee on Public Lands, "Pre-emption Rights in the Choctaw District in Mississippi,"... | |
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