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
| Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...who their dudes 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, And sovereign LAW, that State's collected mil, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 pages
...episode ID either of those wits, who wen Uw chief of lucre 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 nnj globes elate Sits Empress, crowning... | |
| Henry May - Maryland - 1863 - 76 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." Mr. Speaker, I do not propose to enter further into this inquiry than to point to the records geography... | |
| John Charles Curtis - 1863 - 178 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... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 344 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... | |
| Robert Raikes Raymond - Recitations - 1864 - 530 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." Had the policy advocated by Gracchus, of distributing the public lands among the landless citizens... | |
| Education - 1864 - 546 pages
...Mon who their duties know, But know their rights, and kuowingf dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain. These constitute u State." A nation, then, is trie aggregate of the individuals that compose it. The character of the... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1865 - 784 pages
...den, As blasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men. who their duties know, But know their rightt, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd...while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign LAW, that State's collected will, O'er thrones anO globes elate Sits Empress, crowning... | |
| Henry Barnard - Education - 1865 - 948 pages
...Ken 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. f Fellow citizens, it is for you to say what shall be the present character, what shall be the future... | |
| 1865 - 730 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." Let the enemy know that the retes of black men were accepted in every State except South Carolina,... | |
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