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" Where low-browed 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,... "
Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions - Page 428
by Edward Everett - 1836 - 637 pages
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Annual Register, Volume 24

Edmund Burke - 1800 - 614 pages
...far above dull brutes endued In foreft, brake, or den, As beafts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crufh the tyrant while they rend the chain : Tbefe conftitute a ftate, And fov'reign...
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The Parliamentary Register: Or, History of the Proceedings and Debates of ...

Great Britain. Parliament - 1793 - 740 pages
...far above dull brutes endued 111 foreft, brake, or den, As beads excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; MEN who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain.— If the prefent practice deviates from the principles of the Conftitution, he had furely a good light...
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Bell's Classical Arrangement of Fugitive Poetry ..., Volumes 16-18

John Bell - 1794 - 574 pages
...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 aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant, while- they rend the chain : These constitute a State ; And...
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The Monthly magazine, Volume 5, Volume 5

1708 - 586 pages
...above dull brutes endued, In foreft, brake, orden, As beafts excel cold rocks' and brambles 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 STATE. The eleilor...
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The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of ..., Volume 1

Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1798 - 458 pages
...above dull brutes endued, In foreft, brake, or den, As beafts excel cold rocks and brambles rude : Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain} Thefe conftitute a State, And fovereign law, that State's collected will, Prevent the long-aim'd blow,...
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The Spirit of the Public Journals: Being an Impartial Selection of ..., Volume 1

Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - 1799 - 468 pages
...above dull brutes endued, In foreft, brake, or den, As beafts excel cold rocks and brambles rude : Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crufh the tyrant, while they rend the chain: Thefe conftitute a State, And fovereign...
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The temple of Apollo, being a selection of the best poems, from the most ...

Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...far above dull brutes endued In foreft, brake, or den, As beafls excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their DUTIES know, But know their RIGHTS, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crufh the tyrant while they rend the chain : Thefe conllitute a flate, And fovereign...
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The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on ..., Volume 2

1806 - 422 pages
...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,...tyrant, while they rend the chain ; These constitute a. stare, And sovereign LAW, that state's collected -will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress,...
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Specimens of the Later English Poets: With Preliminary Notices, Volume 3

Robert Southey - 1807 - 502 pages
...business wafts perfume to pride. No! — Men, high-minded Men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued 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, And sovereign...
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Specimens of the Later English Poets: With Preliminary Notices, Volume 3

Robert Southey - 1807 - 498 pages
...Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, nnd, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign Law, that state's collected will. O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress crowning...
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