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" WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies... "
The Literary Miscellany: Including Dissertations and Essays on Subjects of ... - Page 89
1806
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Beauties of the British Poets ...

George Croly - 1850 - 442 pages
...constitutes a State ? Not high-raised battlement or laboured mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not...Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ; — men, high-minded men, Witli powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den,...
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Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], Volume 1

Charles Sumner - 1850 - 494 pages
...constitutes a State ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound) Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not...ports, Where, laughing at the storm^ rich navies ride ; But MEN, high-minded MEN. Such men will possess a Christian greatness, rendering them unable to do...
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Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], Volume 2

Charles Sumner - 1850 - 498 pages
...constitutes a State ? fiot high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not...broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich names ride ; But MEN, high-minded MEN. Such men will possess a Christian greatness, rendering them...
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Orations and Speeches on Various Occasions, Volume 1

Edward Everett - 1850 - 708 pages
...constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement, and labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; Not...and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, proud navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfumes to pride....
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Orations and Speeches [1845-1850], Volume 2

Charles Sumner - 1850 - 498 pages
...battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned j Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich, navies ride; But MEN, high-minded MEN. Such men will possess a Christian greatness, rendering them unable to do...
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The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches on various occasions

Daniel Webster - 1851 - 640 pages
...What constitutes a state? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not...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...
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The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Speeches on various occasions

Daniel Webster - 1851 - 672 pages
...What constitutes a state? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not...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...
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The Literature and the Literary Men of Great Britain and Ireland, Volume 2

Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 pages
...wall or moated gate, Nor cities prond with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed posts, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not...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...
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Cyclopedia of English Literature: a Selection of the Choicest ..., Volume 2

Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pages
...or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed porte, let me catch it as I muse along. Ye headlong torrents,...softer floods, that lead the humid maze Along the val No : men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As...
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The American Elocutionist: Comprising 'Lessons in Enunciation', 'Exercises ...

William Russell - 1851 - 392 pages
...with spires and turrets crown'd, Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, proud navies ride; Not 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, In forest, brake, or...
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