 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,...  Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ... - Sivu 1371826Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Anna Maria Hall - 818 sivua
...battlements or laboured mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities fair, with spire or turret crowned ; No ; men, high-minded men, With powers as far above...forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks or brambles rude — Men, who their duties know — Know too their rights, and knowing dare maintain,... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - 1845 - 642 sivua
...spangled courts, Where low-brow'd 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 Mow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a state." Two regiments of infantry,... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 sivua
...wafts 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 stale ; And... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 sivua
...baseness wafts 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...and brambles rude, — Men, who their duties know, Who know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant... | |
 | 1918 - 758 sivua
...Not territory; not armies and munitions, or even laws and institutions — but "men, high-minded men, men who their duties know, but know their rights, and knowing dare maintain, who crush the tyrant while they rend the chain .these constitute a state." The lineal descendants of... | |
 | William Peter - 1847 - 568 sivua
...battlement or laboured mound, Thick wall or moated gate : Not cities fair, with spires and turrets crown'd : No : — Men, high-minded men — / With powers as...and brambles rude — Men, who» their duties know, Know too their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1847 - 752 sivua
...and ttpaugled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafu perfumes to pride ; No! m? n I high minded men, Men who their duties know, But know their rights ; and knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrants, while they rend the chain; These constitute a stnte, And sovereign... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1849 - 1130 sivua
...or their own domestic security, are united to a man — a constituency firm, discreet, enlightened ; who -Their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain ; Prtvait the long-aimed blow, And cruih the tyrant when they rend the rhnm ;" acting by the authority... | |
 | 1848 - 614 sivua
...nothing that is not clearly right, and submit to nothing that is wrong.' Tell her our citizens are MEN, ' who their duties know, but know their rights, and knowing dare maintain.' Tell her we desire peace with all nations, and will cultivate and strive to preserve it by all just... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hallett - 1848 - 84 sivua
...stirred and spangled courts Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride, No mfi\. high-minilcd men, Men who their duties know. But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain." "And sovereign law, that. State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sita empress, crowning... | |
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