| Robert Bland - 1833 - 468 pages
...hattlement or labour'd mound, Thick wall or moated gate. Not cities fan- with spires and turrets crown'd. No : men — high-minded men — With powers as far...rocks and brambles rude. Men, who their duties know, Know too their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, STESICHORUS.f STESICHORUS, a native of Himera in... | |
| Levi Washburn Leonard - 1833 - 370 pages
...starred and spangled courts, Where low browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued,...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... | |
| John Evans - 1834 - 306 pages
...courts, Where low brow'd Baseness wafts perfume to Pride : No ! — men, high minded men, With pow'rs as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake,...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... | |
| Daniel Bishop - 1835 - 748 pages
...navies ride ; Not starr'd and spangled courts, Where, low-brow 'd baseness wafts perfume to pride : No ! men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasbi excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing... | |
| Edward Everett - 1836 - 654 pages
...starred 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;...while they rend the chain ; — These constitute a slate, And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Siti empress,... | |
| Edward Everett - 1836 - 652 pages
...No! men! high-minded men, Men who their duties know, But know then- rights; — and, knowing, darei Prevent the long-aimed 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,... | |
| John Pitman - 1836 - 88 pages
...with Napoleon in arms. But it is not wealth which constitutes a State — " 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." Such have... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 244 pages
...rich navies ride. Not starr'd and spangled courts, Where low brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! men, high-minded men ! With powers as far above...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. True Politics.... | |
| Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 716 pages
...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. True Polilks. EDWARD LYTTON BULWER. It is in vain that they oppose OPINION ; any tiling else... | |
| 1838 - 332 pages
...Where low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ; — men, high-minded men, With powers as tar above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den,...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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