 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
 | Michael Cody - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2004 - 220 pages
...by the blind zeal of a noisy multitude, but by a constitutional expression of public opinion, by — "Men, high minded men, "Men, who their duties know,..."But know their rights; and knowing dare maintain" [2]. Using relatively plain language — as opposed to the high-flown diction of Dennie — Pratt acknowledges... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - Self-Help - 2005 - 461 pages
...above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rode,— 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. WILLIAM JOKES, God give us men. A... | |
 | William Jones - Asianists - 2006 - 198 pages
...Deipnosophistae, xv. 695 ff. Thucydides, vi. 53—4. As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; 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. This poem was widely read in radical... | |
 | Williamjames Hull Hoffer - History - 2007 - 294 pages
...wafts perfume to pride. No; men, high-minded men, With power as far above dull brutes endowed. * ***** Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. ****** These constitute a state. 1 5 In using these lines to support his case, Hopkins encapsulated... | |
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