 | Daniel Webster - 1853 - 644 σελίδες
...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,...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... | |
 | DANIEL WEBSTER - 1853 - 778 σελίδες
...starred and spangled courts, Where lovv-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded MEN, With powers as far above dull brutes endued,...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... | |
 | Yankee Hill - 1853 - 278 σελίδες
...greatness of a state has been justly said to consist in the character of its people. Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In...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... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 σελίδες
...baseness wafts perfume to pride. 2. No ; men, high-minded men, With power as far above dull brutes indued, 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 sovereign... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 σελίδες
...wafts perfumes 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. Sir... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1854 - 572 σελίδες
...Thick wall or moated gate : Not cities fair, with spires and turrets crown'd : No ! Men, high-hearted men — With powers as far above dull brutes endued...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... | |
 | George Croly - 1854 - 426 σελίδες
...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...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... | |
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As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain... 
