 ... 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,...  Specimens of the Later English Poets: With Preliminary Notices - Page 385by Robert Southey - 1807Full view - About this book
 | Charles Northend - Orators - 1856 - 276 pages
...Men, who their duties know, But know ttieir rights, and knowing dare maintain, Prevent, the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; — These constitute a state. EXERCISE LXIX. INTEMPERANCE. the prolific mother-of crime ; the fertile source of disease, misery,... | |
 | William Henry Bogart - Frontier and pioneer life - 1856 - 490 pages
...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 THE STATE." It is well for us to go back to those days. They do not belong to Virginia alone, but to... | |
 | Nahum Gale - Massachusetts - 1857 - 364 pages
...men, high-minded men. Hen, who their duties know, Bat know their rights, and knowing, dare Quintain; These constitute a State. And sovereign Law, that...collected will, , . ; , , O'er thrones and globes elate, Bite empress : —crowning good ; — repairing 111. Bra WILLIAM Joni. BEFORE we proceed to follow... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1857 - 702 pages
...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." Or with the more subtle thoughts of our own Simias, of South Carolina, who wrote — " The moral of... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1858 - 608 pages
...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...state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Site empress, crowning good, repressing 111; Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend Discretion like a... | |
 | Henry Green - Law - 1858 - 170 pages
...With powers as far above dull brutes endued, Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain; Prevent the long-aim'd blow,...they rend the chain : These constitute a state; And Sovereign-Law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good,... | |
 | Henry Green - Law - 1858 - 182 pages
...beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude : 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 reucl the chain : These constitute a state ; And Sovereign-Law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1859 - 674 pages
...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" Or with the more subtle thoughts of our own Simms; of South Carolina, who wrote — " The moral of... | |
 | Samuel Penniman Bates - Education - 1860 - 352 pages
...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....elate Sits empress, crowning good — repressing ill." To education and democracy must be ascribed all the triumphs of civil liberty, and to the want of these... | |
 | Allen Hayden Weld - English language - 1860 - 136 pages
...their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, 15 And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain: These...elate, Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill; 20 Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend Discretion like a vapor sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling Crown... | |
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