 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 614 pages
...MEN, high-minded MEN, With pow'rs as far above dull brutes endued In foreft, brake, or den, As beafts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men, who their...knowing dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crufh the tyrant while they rend the chain : Tbefe conftitute a ftate, And fov'reign LAW, tbatjlatii... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1793 - 740 pages
...MEW, high-minded MEN, With powers as far above dull brutes endued 111 foreft, brake, or den, As beads excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; MEN who their...know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain.— If the prefent practice deviates from the principles of the Conftitution, he had furely a good light... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1794 - 574 pages
...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, or den, As beasts...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... | |
 | Art - 1708 - 586 pages
...MEN, HIGH-MINDED MEN, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In foreft, brake, orden, As beafts excel cold rocks' and brambles rude : MEN, WHO THEIR...WHILE THEY REND. THE CHAIN: THESE CONSTITUTE A STATE. The eleilor of Saxony, on being concordingly effected by the revolution, of fluted refpefting a meafure,... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1798 - 458 pages
...men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In foreft, brake, or den, As beafts excel cold rocks and brambles rude : Men, who their...But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain} Thefe conftitute a State, And fovereign law, that State's collected will, Prevent the long-aim'd blow,... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1799 - 468 pages
...men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In foreft, brake, or den, As beafts excel cold rocks and brambles rude : Men, who their...knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crufh the tyrant, while they rend the chain: Thefe conftitute a State, And fovereign law, that State's... | |
 | Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...MEN, high-minded MEN, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In foreft, brake, or den, As beafls excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their...knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crufh the tyrant while they rend the chain : Thefe conllitute a flate, And fovereign LAW, that jlates... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1802 - 454 pages
...high-minded men, ' With powers as far above dull brutes endu'd, In for eft, brake, or den, As beads excel cold rocks and brambles rude: Men, who their...rights, and, knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-ann'd blow, And crufh the tyrant, while they rend the chain : Thefe conftitute a State-; And Sovereign... | |
 | Literature - 1806 - 422 pages
...Where lowbrowed baseness wafts perfume to pride j No ; MEN, highminded MEN, With powers as far above dull brutes, endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts...their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the longaimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain ; These constitute a. stare, And sovereign... | |
 | Robert Southey - English poetry - 1807 - 502 pages
...business wafts perfume to pride. No! — Men, high-minded Men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued Men, who their duties know, But know their rights,...And sovereign Law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress crowning good, repressing ill; Smit by her sacred frown The fiend... | |
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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,... 
