 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
 | Macleod Wylie - Bengal (India) - 1854 - 410 pages
...high-minded men. With powers as far above dull brutes, endued, In forest, drake, 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 rend the chain : These constitute a... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1854 - 426 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,... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1854 - 398 pages
...— 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." • EXERCISE XLIX. FALSE ELOQUENCE. AnOH. From a speech in Congress on the Revenue Sill of 1833. [Bombast,... | |
 | Elocution - 1854 - 576 pages
...high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, Tn forest, brake or den, As beasts exeel cold rocks and brambles rude; — Men who their duties...But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain." * 87. THE CONSERVATIVE INNOVATOR, 1829.— Wm. HatklMOn. Rorn, 1770 •, died, 1830. I HAVE been charged... | |
 | 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, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain — These constitute a... | |
 | Popular educator - 1854 - 922 pages
...courts, — • Where low-browed baseness waft* perfume to pride ! No ! — men, —high-minded ME'N, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain." Note. ' Concession and Unequal Antithesis.' Ex. " The clouds of ndversiiy may dai Icon over the Christian's... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1896 - 726 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."... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Biography & Autobiography - 1967 - 818 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 aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain: — These constitute... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Johnson, Andrew - 1967 - 630 pages
...wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned. No! men, high minded menMen, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. These constitute a State.29 As I before remarked, this is the dividing line between the Democratic... | |
 | Pennsylvania Bar Association - Bar associations - 1895 - 488 pages
...far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rnde ; Men who their duties 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... | |
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