 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 Universal Preceptor: Being a General Grammar of Arts, Sciences, and ... - Страница 35написао/ла Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 312 страницаПуни преглед - О овој књизи
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 274 страница
...far above dull brutes endu'd, 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; And... | |
 | 1840 - 368 страница
...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,...while they rend the chain : These constitute a state, And sov'reign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning... | |
 | 1840 - 378 страница
...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, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aira'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state, And sov'reign... | |
 | 1842 - 712 страница
...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 dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; And sovereign... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 страница
...Thick 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 - 1843 - 48 страница
...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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 страница
...who their duties know, I!ut know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed ighty Father, these Are And sovereign Law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empresa, crowning... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 страница
...spangled courts, — Where lo \v-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride! No ! — men, — high-minded MEN, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain." Note. ' Concession and Unequal Antithesis.' Ex. " The clouds of adversity may darken over the Christian's... | |
 | 1844 - 620 страница
...sanctioning, and to magistrates and officers he had a share in controlling. These are principles befitting Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. If we suffer ourselves to be cajoled into adopting the French system, then will England become, what... | |
 | William Russell - 1844 - 428 страница
...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, dare maintain." EXERCISE XLIX. FALSE ELOQUENCE. — ArWH. From a speech in Congress on the Revenue Bill of 1833. [Bombast,... | |
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