... 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,... Specimens of the Later English Poets: With Preliminary Notices - Страница 385написао/ла Robert Southey - 1807Пуни преглед - О овој књизи
| John Aikin - 1852 - 792 страница
...beasts eicel cold rocks and brambles rude ; .\Ii-ii, who their duties know. But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow,...tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a slate ; And sovereign law, that stale's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress,... | |
| Massachusetts Teachers Association - 1852 - 358 страница
...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 states collected will O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill."... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1853 - 644 страница
...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...elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill." And, finally, another most important part of the great fabric of American liberty is, that there shall... | |
| DANIEL WEBSTER - 1853 - 778 страница
...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...elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill." And, finally, another most important part of the great fabric of American liberty is, that there shall... | |
| George Handel HILL - 1853 - 290 страница
...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 State. Though New England cannot boast of rich plantations, and gangs of laborers producing vast crops of... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 страница
...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. Sir William Jones. STATESMAN. A STATESMAN, that can side with every faction, And yet most subtly can... | |
| Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 страница
...beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men. who their ditties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow,...elate Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill; Sinit by her sacred Crown, The fiend Discretion like a vapor sinks, And e'en tlr all-dazzling Crown... | |
| George Croly - 1854 - 426 страница
...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...State, And sovereign Law, that State's collected will, JONES. Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill ; Smit by her sacred frown The fiend dissension... | |
| 1854 - 402 страница
...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,...they rend the chain — These constitute a State' Written in England over one hundred years ago THE BIRDS OF THE BIBLE. NO. XIII.— THE QUAIL. 3T THE... | |
| Macleod Wylie - 1854 - 412 страница
...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 it is to elevate the people of this land, that the British Government is here planted and sustained,... | |
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