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" 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 35
by Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 312 pages
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Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, Volume 4

Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1829 - 594 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 Genera] Government, the House of Representatives is mainly republican...
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Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J ...

Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 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...
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The Literary and Scientific Class Book: Embracing the Leading Facts and ...

Levi Washburn Leonard - Science - 1830 - 350 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 , INTELLIGENCE...
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The picture of England & Wales

A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 pages
...accounts of various parts of the county. The Men of Kent fully realize the idea of Sir William Jones, of " Men, who their duties know, But know their rights; and, knowing, dare maintain 1" they have consequently always stood forward on occasions of threatened danger to liberty and property...
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Shakspeare's Seven Ages: Or, The Progress of Human Life

John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...far 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,...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...
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The Quarterly Journal of Education, Volume 6

Education - 1833 - 414 pages
...brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude — Men who their duties know, Know too their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent...blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. It would be unfair to conclude this article without stating that the Roman names of authors, and other...
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The Literary and Scientific Class Book: Embracing the Leading Facts and ...

Levi Washburn Leonard - Civilization - 1833 - 370 pages
...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...
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Shakspeare's Seven Ages of Man: Or, The Progress of Human Life. Illustrated ...

John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 pages
...far 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,—...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...
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The Constitution of Society: As Designed by God

Daniel Bishop - Christian sociology - 1835 - 748 pages
...far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasbi excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain !" 35. Demosthenes, speaking of certain free states, calls them their own legislators. — (Demosthenis...
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A Discourse Delivered at Providence, August 5, L836: In Commemoration of the ...

John Pitman - Rhode Island - 1836 - 88 pages
...subsidize Europe, and contend with Napoleon in arms. But it is not wealth which constitutes a State — " No; men, high minded men ; Men, who their duties 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." Such have...
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