 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
 | Sir Richard Phillips - 1826 - 322 pagina’s
...star'd and spangled courts, Where low-bred 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 blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. These constitute a state. SIR. w.... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 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,...their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long .aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; 252 INTELLIGENCE... | |
 | Samuel Parr, John Johnstone - 1828 - 796 pagina’s
...antient poets, Sir William thus writes in his translation and expansion of the Fragment from Alcxus : " 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." Such was... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 1102 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1829 - 552 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;... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 350 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,...their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state , INTELLIGENCE... | |
 | A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 pagina’s
...accounts of various parts of the county. The Men of Kent fully realize the idea of Sir William Jones, of " Men, who their duties know, But know their rights; and, knowing, dare maintain 1" they have consequently always stood forward on occasions of threatened danger to liberty and property... | |
 | John Evans - 1831 - 322 pagina’s
...courts, Where low brow'd Baseness wafts perfume to Pride : No ! — men, high minded men, With pow'rs as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake,...rights, — and knowing, dare maintain : Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. These constitute A STATE. And sovereign... | |
 | Robert Bland - 1833 - 468 pagina’s
...wall or moated gate. Not cities fan- with spires and turrets crown'd. No : men — high-minded men — With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest,...rocks and brambles rude. Men, who their duties know, Know too their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, STESICHORUS.f STESICHORUS, a native of Himera in... | |
 | 1833 - 414 pagina’s
...or moated gate; Not cities fair, with spires and turrets crown'd; No : men — high-minded men — With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest,...rocks and brambles rude — Men who their duties know, Know too their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant... | |
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