 Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! 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 duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing,...  The Monthly magazine, Volume 5 - Page 2031708 - 552 pagesFull view - About this book
 | DANIEL WEBSTER - 1853 - 778 pages
...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 LAW, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 644 pages
...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 LAW, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1854 - 402 pages
...powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, wake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and hamlets rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights,...they rend the chain — These constitute a State' Written in England over one hundred years ago THE BIRDS OF THE BIBLE. NO. XIII.— THE QUAIL. 3T THE... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1854 - 796 pages
...mankind." In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men. who their ditties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain,...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... | |
 | Macleod Wylie - Bengal (India) - 1854 - 412 pages
...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 it is to elevate the people of this land, that the British Government is here planted and sustained,... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 pages
...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 Law, that State's collected will, JONES. Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill... | |
 | New Hampshire State Agricultural Society - Agriculture - 1854 - 416 pages
...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. of your New Hampshire men ! Originally an healthy and vigorous stock, and it has been kept in good... | |
 | One of 'em - American literature - 1855 - 340 pages
...power as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, wake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and hamlets rude ! Men who their duties know, But know their rights,...while they rend the chain : These constitute a State. BLESSING THE BEASTS. BY GRACE GREENWOOD. WE went, last Sunday, to see the blessing of beasts — an... | |
 | Clavin Henderson Wiley - Readers - 1855 - 380 pages
...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 law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning... | |
 | John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, James Hogg - 1854 - 516 pages
...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. " — M. Shepherd. Gie them first time to get intill existence — and then they'll Opium-Eater. —... | |
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