 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
 | Massachusetts Teachers Association - Education - 1852 - 358 pages
...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 state!... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1852 - 792 pages
...dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den. As beasts eicel cold rocks and brambles rude ; .\Ii-ii, n inward, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a slate... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 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 a... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 644 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...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 WEBSTER - 1853 - 778 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...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... | |
 | Yankee Hill - Actors - 1853 - 278 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...But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Present the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain — These constitute a... | |
 | George Handel HILL - Actors - 1853 - 290 pages
...men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rooks and brambles rude : Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Present the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain — These constitute a... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives - Capital punishment - 1853 - 102 pages
...America, but in its men—its high-souled men. "What constitutes a state? ******* * * * High-minded raen ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain : These constitute a state." Conflagrations may ruin the proudest cities, and soon again are reared... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 630 pages
...moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd ; No : men, high minded men ; Hen, who their duties know ; But know their rights ; and knowing, dare maintain. These constitute a State." ff In the General Government, the House of Representatives is mainly republican... | |
 | United States - 1854 - 572 pages
...high-hearted 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...know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they read the chain. The poet who traced... | |
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