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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,... "
The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of ... - Page 89
1806
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The Institutions of Popular Education: An Essay to which the Manchester ...

Richard Winter Hamilton - 1845 - 376 pages
...rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride ; No : — Men, high-minded men, With powers as far...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,...
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The District School Reader, Or, Exercises in Reading and Speaking: Designed ...

William Draper Swan - 1845 - 482 pages
...ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-born baseness wafts perfume to pride : No—men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes...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,...
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Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and ..., Volumes 6-7

Anna Maria Hall - 818 pages
...battlements or laboured mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities fair, with spire or turret crowned ; No ; men, high-minded men, With powers as far above...forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks or brambles rude — Men, who their duties know — Know too their rights, and knowing dare maintain,...
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The Army and Navy of America: Containing a View of the Heroic Adventures ...

Jacob K. Neff - 1845 - 642 pages
...spangled courts, Where low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride, No ; — men ; high-minded men : — Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aim'd Mow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a state." Two regiments...
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Materials for thinking extracted from the works of the learned of all ages

Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...wafts perfume to pride — No ! — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endu'd, In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks...their rights; and, knowing, dare maintain. Prevent the long aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain, — These constitute a stale ; And...
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The Gem book of poesie, by the author of 'The ancient poets and poetry of ...

Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...baseness wafts perfume to pride. No — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endu'd, In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks...and brambles rude, — Men, who their duties know, Who know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant...
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The American Missionary, Volume 72

1918 - 758 pages
...Not territory; not armies and munitions, or even laws and institutions — but "men, high-minded men, men who their duties know, but know their rights, and knowing dare maintain, who crush the tyrant while they rend the chain .these constitute a state." The lineal descendants of...
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Specimens of the Poets and Poetry of Greece and Rome

William Peter - 1847 - 568 pages
...battlement or laboured mound, Thick wall or moated gate : Not cities fair, with spires and turrets crown'd : No : — Men, high-minded men — / With powers as...and brambles rude — Men, who» their duties know, Know too their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant,...
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American Monthly Knickerbocker, Volume 30

Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1847 - 752 pages
...and ttpaugled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafu perfumes to pride ; No! m? n I high minded men, Men who their duties know, But know their rights ;...maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrants, while they rend the chain; These constitute a stnte, And sovereign law, that state's collected...
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Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. Senate - 1849 - 1130 pages
...or their own domestic security, are united to a man — a constituency firm, discreet, enlightened ; who -Their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain ; Prtvait the long-aimed blow, And cruih the tyrant when they rend the rhnm ;" acting by the authority...
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