 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
 | William Jones - 2006 - 198 pagina’s
...Athens a city of equal rights.' 17 Athenaeus, Deipnosophistae, xv. 695 ff. Thucydides, vi. 53—4. As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men,...their rights, and knowing dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim 'd blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain. This poem was widely read in radical... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 2006 - 553 pagina’s
...to pride. No: men, high-minded men, Witli powers as far above dull hrntes endued In forest, hrake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their dnties know, Knt know their rights, and koowin|f, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow. And crush... | |
 | Various - 2006 - 496 pagina’s
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 | S. P. Linn - 2007 - 448 pagina’s
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 | Williamjames Hull Hoffer - 2007 - 294 pagina’s
...wafts perfume to pride. No; men, high-minded men, With power as far above dull brutes endowed. * ***** Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. ****** These constitute a state. 1 5 In using these lines to support his case, Hopkins encapsulated... | |
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