 | United States - 1848 - 614 pages
...nothing that is not clearly right, and submit to nothing that is wrong.' Tell her our citizens are MEN, ' who their duties know, but know their rights, and knowing dare maintain.' Tell her we desire peace with all nations, and will cultivate and strive to preserve it by all just... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1881 - 792 pages
...Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, * * Not starred and spangled courts, Where low browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded...But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain." Because the Sabbath promotes the constant and systematic study of the Bible, which sets forth our duties... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled...wafts perfume to pride. No ; — men, high-minded men, Witli powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 708 pages
...storm, proud navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfumes to pride. No ! men ! high-minded men, Men who their...know their rights, — and knowing, dare maintain, — Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain; — These constitute... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...above dull brutes endu'd, 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 wash the tyrant, while they rend the chain. These constitute a state... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 640 pages
...cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled...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... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 672 pages
...cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled...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... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...Nor cities prond with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad-armed posts, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled...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... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 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, —...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,... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 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: These constitute a state , 3 And sovereign law, that state's collected will, 4 The fiend discretion* like a vapor sinks ; O'er... | |
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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... 
