 | Levi Washburn Leonard - Civilization - 1833 - 370 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,...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 aimed... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 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... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - Christian sociology - 1835 - 748 pages
...Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starr'd and spangled courts, Where, low-brow 'd baseness wafts perfume to pride : No ! men, high-minded...above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasbi excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing... | |
 | John Pitman - Rhode Island - 1836 - 88 pages
...with Napoleon in arms. But it is not wealth which constitutes a State — " No; men, high minded men ; 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." Such have... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 244 pages
...ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride. Not starr'd and spangled courts, Where low brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! men, high-minded...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. True Politics.... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 716 pages
...ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride. Not starr'd and spangled courts, Where low brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! men, high-minded...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. True Polilks.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...low-brow'd baseness waits j)erfumo to pride. NO: — Men, high-minded men, With powers as far aliovo ndest wishes knew. Each soft enchantment of the soul...Thine be the joys to firm attachment due. As on she long-aim'd blow, And crush ihe tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; And sovereign... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 pages
...and spangled courts ow-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride." After stating that it consists in " Men who their duties know, but know their rights, and knowing dare maintain," he concludes with a stanza expressive of hii political opinions at that moment : — ' Such wu thii... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 750 pages
...wafts perfume to pride Not hays and broad-arm'd ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; NO:—Men, high-minded men, With powers as far ahove dull brutes endued Men, who their duties know,... | |
 | Pennsylvania Hall Association (Philadelphia, Pa.), Samuel Webb - Slavery - 1838 - 222 pages
...recognise them as their peers and equals ; for, as I stated, they were, in the language of the poet, •" Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain : " — and therefore, fondly trusted, that the voice which proclaimed this sentiment to the world... | |
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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,... 
