 | Noah Porter - Farmington (Conn.) - 1841 - 112 pages
...themselves to the improvement of the men who uphold them. Men are what we need. if _ • " These constitute a state",— | " Not high-raised battlement or labored...Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned, Where laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-born baseness... | |
 | Noah Porter - Farmington (Conn.) - 1841 - 116 pages
...battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned, Where laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-born baseness wafts perfume to pride ; No ; — men, high-minded men." Let those \vhodespair of... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...protected ? against what? and when? It is the STATE that is to he protected. What constitutes the State ? " What constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement...laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spansled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: Men, hish-minded Men, With powers... | |
 | American literature - 1840 - 532 pages
...monuments, but in its men. " Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate, Mot cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned, Not...ports, Where laughing at the storm rich navies ride, Nor starred sind spangled courts, When; low-bred baseness wafts perfume to pride ; No ! Men, high-minded... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 pages
...define a State. " What constitutes a State ?" it is asked : " Not high-raised battlements, or labor'd mound, Thick wall, or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd ; No ! Men, high-minded men, Men, who their duties know ; But know their rights; and knowing,... | |
 | George Barrell Cheever - Anti-Catholicism - 1843 - 48 pages
...constitutes a State ? Let the poet and legislator first answer. Not high-raised battlement or laboured mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud...Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : men, high-minded men, Men, who their duties know But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain.... | |
 | English literature - 1843 - 592 pages
...turrets crowned — " The high-raised battlements And laboured mound, thick wall and moated gate, And bays, and broad-armed ports, where laughing at The storm, rich navies ride," and States, Principalities, and Republics, have owed their existence and origin to one Columbus. It... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...constitutes a state? Xot high-raised battlement or laboured laound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Xot ; the forest (miles ; And every sense and ever)- heart...heat refulgent. Then thy sun Shoots full perfection : men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In foreet, brake, or den, As beast«... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...purА я Ode, m Imitation of Alaeiu. What constitutes a state ! Not high-raised battlement or laboured It is the moss that wholly hides The rotted old oak-stump....lights so many and fair That signal made but now U'here low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : men, high-minded men, With powers as far above... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - Elocution - 1844 - 440 pages
...to wretchedness." 3. " What constitutes a state ? — Not high raised battlements, or labored m6und, Thick wall, or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with...spires and turrets crowned, Not bays and broad-armed p6rts, Where, laughing at the storm, proud navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, — Where... | |
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What constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled... 
