 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
 | Jacob K. Neff - Military art and science - 1845 - 642 pages
...spangled courts, Where low-brow'd 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 Mow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a state."... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Education - 1845 - 376 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 a State... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 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 a... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Education - 1845 - 372 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 a State... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1918 - 758 pages
...Not territory; not armies and munitions, or even laws and institutions — but "men, high-minded men, men who their duties know, but know their rights, and knowing dare maintain, who crush the tyrant while they rend the chain .these constitute a state." The lineal descendants of... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 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 aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain, — These constitute... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1847 - 752 pages
...and ttpaugled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafu perfumes to pride ; No! m? n I high minded men, Men who their duties know, But know their rights ; and knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrants, while they rend the chain; These constitute a... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1849 - 1130 pages
...or their own domestic security, are united to a man — a constituency firm, discreet, enlightened ; who -Their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain ; Prtvait the long-aimed blow, And cruih the tyrant when they rend the rhnm ;" acting by the authority... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hallett - Constitutional history - 1848 - 84 pages
...stirred and spangled courts Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride, No mfi\. high-minilcd men, Men who their duties know. But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain." "And sovereign law, that. State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sita empress, crowning... | |
 | 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... | |
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