 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 Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of ... - Page 384by Great Britain. Parliament - 1793Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...Men, high-minded men, With powers as far aliovo dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts hers ; Thine be the joys to firm attachment due. As on she Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush ihe tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state... | |
 | American poetry - 1838 - 332 pages
...men, high-minded men, With powers as tar above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their...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,... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...cold rocks and brambles rude; NO:—Men, high-minded men, With powers as far ahove dull brutes endued Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain These constitute a state ; And sovereign law, that stale's collected will, Prevent the long-aim'd blow,... | |
 | Pennsylvania Hall Association (Philadelphia, Pa.), Samuel Webb - Slavery - 1838 - 222 pages
...recognise them as their peers and equals ; for, as I stated, they were, in the language of the poet, •" Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain : " — and therefore, fondly trusted, that the voice which proclaimed this sentiment to the world... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 pages
...and spangled courts ow-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride." After stating that it consists in " Men who their duties know, but know their rights, and knowing dare maintain," he concludes with a stanza expressive of hii political opinions at that moment : — ' Such wu thii... | |
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 274 pages
...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...But know their rights; and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain, — These constitute... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 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...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,... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...Men, hish-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...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... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 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 I" • But this has merit only as a fine sentiment happily expressed. It is,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Anti-Catholicism - 1843 - 48 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. These constitute a State, And Sovereign Law that State's collected will. Men constitute a State, and... | |
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