 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
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1859 - 780 pages
...brambles rude : Men. who their dvlies know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, PreTent the long-aim'd 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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1859 - 674 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" Or with the more subtle thoughts of our own Simms; of South Carolina, who wrote — " The moral of... | |
 | Advanced reading book - Readers - 1860 - 458 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...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 766 pages
...episode in either of those wits, who were the chief of mere mankind." In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men. who their...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1860 - 778 pages
...in. In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men. who their dutit» 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... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1860 - 388 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." 1. Page 26. J. Page 47. 3. PofreSI. 4. The territorial extent of our republic is ten times as large... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - Education - 1860 - 352 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... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - English language - 1860 - 136 pages
...their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, 15 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... | |
 | Robert Sullivan - 1861 - 532 pages
...No—men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endu'd. In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men, who their...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... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - Authors, Classical - 1861 - 632 pages
...who their duties know, Know too 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 SEVEN WISE MEN OF GREECE. FLOURISHED ABOUT 600 BC THE names generally included under the appellation... | |
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