 | Sir Richard Phillips - Arts - 1826 - 322 pages
...star'd and spangled courts, Where low-bred 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 blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. These constitute a state. SIR. w.... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - New Hampshire - 1827 - 398 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,...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... | |
 | Samuel Parr - Theology - 1828 - 796 pages
...antient poets, Sir William thus writes in his translation and expansion of the Fragment from Alcxus : " 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." Such was... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 pages
...wall, or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd ; No : men, high-minded men ; Men, who their duties know ; But know their rights; and, knowing, dare maintain. These constitute a State.' In the General Government, the House of Representatives is mainly republican... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - Presidents - 1829 - 552 pages
...wall, or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd . No : men, high-minded men ; Men, who their duties know ; But know their rights ; and, knowing, dare maintain. These constitute a State.' In the General Government, the House of Representatives is mainly republican;... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - Science - 1830 - 350 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,...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... | |
 | A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 pages
...accounts of various parts of the county. The Men of Kent fully realize the idea of Sir William Jones, of " Men, who their duties know, But know their rights; and, knowing, dare maintain 1" they have consequently always stood forward on occasions of threatened danger to liberty and property... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1831 - 322 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... | |
 | Education - 1833 - 414 pages
...battlement or labonr'd mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities fair, 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, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant... | |
 | Robert Bland - English poetry - 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... | |
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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, and knowing,... 
