 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,...  The New McGuffey Fifth Reader - Σελίδα 274των William Holmes McGuffey - 1901 - 352 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 796 σελίδες
...waits j)erfumo to pride. NO: — Men, high-minded men, With powers as far aliovo dull brutes endued Each soft enchantment of the soul is hers ; Thine be the joys to firm attachment due. As on she long-aim'd blow, And crush ihe tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; And sovereign... | |
 | John Aikin - 1838 - 750 σελίδες
...wafts perfume to pride Not hays and broad-arm'd ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; NO:—Men, high-minded men, With powers as far ahove dull brutes endued Men, who their duties know,... | |
 | Pennsylvania Hall Association (Philadelphia, Pa.), Samuel Webb - 1838 - 222 σελίδες
...recognise them as their peers and equals ; for, as I stated, they were, in the language of the poet, •" Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain : " — and therefore, fondly trusted, that the voice which proclaimed this sentiment to the world... | |
 | 1838 - 1050 σελίδες
...and spangled courts ow-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride." After stating that it consists in " Men who their duties know, but know their rights, and knowing dare maintain," he concludes with a stanza expressive of hii political opinions at that moment : — ' Such wu thii... | |
 | John Taylor - 1839 - 274 σελίδες
...wails perfume to pride. — No! — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endu'd, In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks...their rights; and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain, — These constitute a state; And... | |
 | 1840 - 378 σελίδες
...baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : men, high-minded men, With pow'rs as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks...their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aira'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state, And sov'reign... | |
 | 1840 - 368 σελίδες
...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, And sov'reign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good,... | |
 | 1842 - 712 σελίδες
...baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: Men, hish-minded Men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks...O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning ¡rood, repressing ill." The people — the community — the majority of the members of the body politic,... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 σελίδες
...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 I" • But this has merit only as a fine sentiment happily expressed. It is,... | |
 | sir William Cathcart Boyd - 1843 - 444 σελίδες
...spires and turrets crown'd. 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, Know too their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.' In shatter'd tempest — beaten bark, With labouring... | |
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