 In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State;...  The temple of Apollo, being a selection of the best poems, from the most ... - Σελίδα 23των Apollo - 1800Πλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | DANIEL WEBSTER - 1853 - 778 σελίδες
...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...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 SOVEREIGN... | |
 | George Handel Hill (known as Yankee Hill), Yankee Hill - 1853 - 278 σελίδες
...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...But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Present the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain — These constitute a... | |
 | George Handel Hill - 1853 - 290 σελίδες
...men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rooks and brambles rude : Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Present the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain — These constitute a... | |
 | Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives - 1853 - 102 σελίδες
...America, but in its men—its high-souled men. "What constitutes a state? ******* * * * High-minded raen ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain : These constitute a state." Conflagrations may ruin the proudest cities, and soon again are reared... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1854 - 630 σελίδες
...moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd ; No : men, high minded men ; Hen, who their duties know ; But know their rights ; and knowing, dare maintain. These constitute a State." ff In the General Government, the House of Representatives is mainly republican... | |
 | Macleod Wylie - 1854 - 410 σελίδες
...high-minded men. With powers as far above dull brutes, endued, In forest, drake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude. Men, who their...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 it... | |
 | 1854 - 572 σελίδες
...high-hearted 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...their rights, and knowing dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they read the chain. The poet who traced these lines when... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1896 - 726 σελίδες
...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...their rights, and. knowing, dare maintain; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. These constitute a State." The worth... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 818 σελίδες
...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...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... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 630 σελίδες
...wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned. No! men, high minded menMen, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. These constitute a State.29 As I before remarked, this is the dividing line between the Democratic... | |
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