 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...Where, laughing at the storm, proud navies ride ; Nor starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed Baseness wafts perfume to Pride ! No '. men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endned, In forest, brake or don, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; — Men who their duties... | |
 | Yankee Hill - Actors - 1853 - 278 pages
...Acropolis. The true greatness of a state has been justly said to consist in the character of its people. Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull...But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Present the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain — These constitute a... | |
 | George Handel HILL - Actors - 1853 - 290 pages
...Acropolis. The true greatness of a state has been justly said to consist in the character of its people. Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull...endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rooks and brambles rude : Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...storm, rich navies ride; Nor starr'd and spangled courts, Where low-brow'd baseness wafts perfumes to pride — No! men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endu'd, In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men who their duties... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives - Capital punishment - 1853 - 102 pages
...America, but in its men—its high-souled men. "What constitutes a state? ******* * * * High-minded raen ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain : These constitute a state." Conflagrations may ruin the proudest cities, and soon again are reared... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 630 pages
...moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd ; No : men, high minded men ; Hen, who their duties know ; But know their rights ; and knowing, dare maintain. These constitute a State." ff In the General Government, the House of Representatives is mainly republican... | |
 | United States - 1854 - 572 pages
...Thick wall or moated gate : Not cities fair, with spires and turrets crown'd : No ! Men, high-hearted men — With powers as far above dull brutes endued...long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they read the chain. The poet who traced these lines when summoned to the banquets of the gods, at first... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - Alaska - 1950 - 576 pages
...and spangled courts, where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. Nay, not these ; but men — Men with powers as far above dull brutes endued in...den as beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude." "These, then, constitute the State — not the wealth of forest, field, or mine ; not the rich valleys,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - Alaska - 1950 - 590 pages
...and spangled courts, where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. Nay, not these ; but men — Men with powers as far above dull brutes endued in...den as beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude." "These, then, constitute the Statt — not the wealth of forest, field, or mine; not the rich valleys,... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Biography & Autobiography - 1967 - 818 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.18 Not... | |
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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,... 
