 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,...  The Elements of Reading and Oratory - Pagina 349door Henry Mandeville - 1888 - 356 pagina’sVolledige weergave - Over dit boek
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...and spangled courts, Where low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest,...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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