 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 Seiten
...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...their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long .aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; 252 INTELLIGENCE... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1828 - 368 Seiten
...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...elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. We may be told that this is a vision of a perfect commonwealth ; and so it is : — still the hopes... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 350 Seiten
...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...their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state , INTELLIGENCE... | |
 | John Evans - 1831 - 322 Seiten
...wafts perfume to Pride : No ! — men, high minded men, With pow'rs as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks...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... | |
 | Robert Bland - 1833 - 468 Seiten
...spires and turrets crown'd. 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, Know too their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, STESICHORUS.f STESICHORUS, a native of Himera in... | |
 | 1833 - 414 Seiten
...spires and turrets crown'd; 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, Know too their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 Seiten
...wafts perfume to Pride : No ! — men, high minded men, With pow'rs as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks...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 Seiten
...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...know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain !" 35. Demosthenes, speaking of certain free states, calls them their own legislators. — (Demosthenis... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1836 - 652 Seiten
...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,...elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.' EULOGY ON LAFAYETTE, DELIVERED IN FANEUIL HALL, AT THE REQUEST OF THE YOUNG MEN OF BOSTON, SEPTEMBER... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1836 - 654 Seiten
...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,... | |
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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,... 
