 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
 | 1902 - 538 pagina’s
...pride. No! Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake, or glen, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men...But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. ***** These constitute a State.—Hon. BS Rodey, NM IN LIGHTER MOOD. He: "My train goes in fifteen... | |
 | Andrew J Davis - 1996 - 424 pagina’s
...the foundations and glory of our Government: « " Men, high,minded men, With powers as far above the brutes endued, In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rnde—- Men who their duties know, But know their rigldi. and knowing, dare maintain, • : Prevent... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 pagina’s
...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." In the General Government, the House of Representatives is mainly republican;... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 2002 - 412 pagina’s
...low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ; men, high-minded men, With powers as far above duU brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts...while they rend the chain. These constitute a State"; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning... | |
 | James Brown Scott - 2002 - 1046 pagina’s
...spires and turrets crown'd; Not bays and broad-armed ports, . . . No: — Men, high minded men, . . . Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain; . . . These constitute a state. 66 We may and do, of course, speak of a union of territories, but a... | |
 | Laura Jensen - 2003 - 260 pagina’s
...Nor starr'd and spangled courts. Where low-born baseness wafts perfume to pride: But MEN! high-minded men, Who their duties know, but know their RIGHTS, And, knowing, dare maintain them. 109 House Committee on Public Lands, "Pre-emption Rights in the Choctaw District in Mississippi,"... | |
 | Michael Cody - 2004 - 220 pagina’s
...noisy multitude, but by a constitutional expression of public opinion, by — "Men, high minded men, "Men, who their duties know, "But know their rights; and knowing dare maintain" [2]. Using relatively plain language — as opposed to the high-flown diction of Dennie — Pratt acknowledges... | |
 | Orison Swett Marden - 2005 - 461 pagina’s
...starred and spangled courts, 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 rode,— Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the... | |
 | 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... | |
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