 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-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State,...  The Western Educational Review - Page 2561871Full view - About this book
 | John Aikin, John Frost - English poetry - 1838 - 752 pages
...far ahove dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state... | |
 | John Taylor - Quotations - 1839 - 274 pages
...far 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 aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain, — These constitute... | |
 | English poetry - 1840 - 368 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, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state,... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 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 I" • But this has merit only as a fine sentiment happily expressed. It is,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Anti-Catholicism - 1843 - 48 pages
...starred and spangled courts Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : men, high-minded men, Men, who their duties know But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. These constitute a State, And Sovereign Law that State's collected will. Men constitute a State, and... | |
 | 1844 - 620 pages
...sanctioning, and to magistrates and officers he had a share in controlling. These are principles befitting Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. If we suffer ourselves to be cajoled into adopting the French system, then will England become, what France... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1844 - 636 pages
...sanctioning, and to magistrates and officers he had a share in controlling. These are principles befitting Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. If we suffer ourselves to be cajoled into adopting the French system, then will England become, what France... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 428 pages
...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." EXERCISE XLIX. FALSE ELOQUENCE. — ArWH. From a speech in Congress on the Revenue Bill of 1833. [Bombast,... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - American literature - 1844 - 444 pages
...courts, — Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride ! No ! — m&n, — high-minded M&N, — , Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain." Note. ' Concession and Unequal Antithesis.' Ex. " The clouds of adversity may darken over the Christian's... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...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 ; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain; — These constitute... | |
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