 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 Hill Wheeler - North Carolina - 1851 - 644 pages
...courts, Where low-brow d baseness wafts perfume to pride ! No, Men, high-minded men — ****** AT*-/', who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain." SIR WILLIAM JONES. The deep sensation which pervades our State, caused by the recent death of CHARLES... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den. As beasts eicel cold rocks and brambles rude ; .\Ii-ii, n inward, slate ; And sovereign law, that stale's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress,... | |
 | Thomas D'Arcy McGee - Irish - 1852 - 248 pages
...starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No. MEN, HIGH-MINDED MEN. 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... | |
 | Massachusetts Teachers Association - Education - 1852 - 358 pages
...starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfumes to pride. No! Men! high-minded men ! 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... | |
 | Thomas D'Arcy McGee - Emigration and immigration - 1852 - 248 pages
...starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No. MEN, HIGH-MINDED MEN. ****** Men who their duties know, ^ But know...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 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." * 87. THE CONSERVATIVE INNOVATOR, 1829.— Wm. Hntkinon. Born, 1770 ; died, 1830. I HAVE been charged... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...above dull brutes endned, In forest, brake or don, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain." * 87. THE CONSERVATIVE INNOVATOR, 1829.— Wm. Huskilton. Born, 1770 ; died, 1830. I HAVE been charged... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...far above dull brutes indued, 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... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 726 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." The worth... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Biography & Autobiography - 1967 - 818 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, and knowing dare maintain, Prevent the long aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain: — These constitute a State.18 Not... | |
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