 ... 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
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Education - 1845 - 376 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."* Instead, then, of seeking national education, — a figment, hopeless as the secrets which darker ages... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - Education - 1845 - 378 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."* Instead, then, of seeking national education, — a figment, hopeless as the secrets which darker ages... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - Military art and science - 1845 - 642 pages
...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, with several pieces of cannon, REVOLUTION. 221 had followed the arrival... | |
 | Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...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,...state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate. SIR W. JONES. PEACE AND WAR. A VISION OF WAR. FlIOM THE OPENING OF THE SEVEN SEALS. 2 Norm. And there... | |
 | Materials - 1846 - 478 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 stale ; And sovereign law, that states collected will, High over thrones, and globes elate, Sits empress,... | |
 | Congregational churches - 1918 - 758 pages
..."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 the early New England colonists have a personal reason for being interested... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1847 - 672 pages
...know their rights ; and knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrants, while they rend the chain; These constitute a state,...O'er thrones and globes elate. Sits empress, crowning rood, repressing ill.' Cincinnati, Stpt., Ml. OCTOBER AT 'noun, HIS FERRY. ON TBB HUDSON RIVSK. ' THB»B... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1847 - 752 pages
...Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrants, while they rend the chain; These constitute a stnte, And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Site empress, crowning good, repressing ill.' ELM. Cincinnati, Sept., 1647. OCTOBER AT ' DOBB , HIS... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Hallett - Constitutional history - 1848 - 84 pages
...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 good, repressing ill." The learned counsel (Mr. "Webster) implies by his look... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1849 - 416 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, And sovereign Law, that Slate's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill ;... | |
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