 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;...  Annual Register - Page 171edited by - 1800Full view - About this book
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 552 pages
...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;... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...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... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - Science - 1830 - 350 pages
...Men, high minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their...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... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 pages
...men, high minded men, With pow'rs as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ! Men who their...knowing, dare maintain : Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. These constitute A STATE. And sovereign Law, that state's... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 pages
...men, high minded men, With pow'rs as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ! Men who their...knowing, dare maintain: Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. These constitute A STATE. And sovereign Law, that state's... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - Christian sociology - 1835 - 748 pages
...men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasbi excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their...know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain !" 35. Demosthenes, speaking of certain free states, calls them their own legislators. — (Demosthenis... | |
 | John Pitman - Rhode Island - 1836 - 88 pages
...with Napoleon in arms. But it is not wealth which constitutes a State — " 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." Such have... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 654 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 slate, And... | |
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