| George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ; — men, high-minded men, Witli powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest,...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... | |
| William Knight Northall - Biography & Autobiography - 1850 - 208 pages
...Acropolis. The true greatness of a state has been justly said to consist in the character of its people. Men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull...rocks and brambles rude : Men who their duties know, Bat know their rights, and knowing dare maintain, Present the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...ride ; Not starr'd and spangled courts, Where low-brow'd 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 eicel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, Bat know their rights, and knowing,... | |
| Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride : Not starr'd and spangled courts, Where low-bred 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... | |
| Conduct of life - 1881 - 792 pages
...spangled courts, 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." Because the Sabbath promotes the constant and systematic study of the Bible, which sets forth our duties... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 640 pages
...Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No: MEN, high-minded...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... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 672 pages
...Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : MEN, high-minded...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... | |
| William Russell - Elocution - 1851 - 392 pages
...Where, laughing at the storm, proud navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, — Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride ! No ! men, — high-minded...But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain." EXERCISE XLIX. FALSE ELOQUENCE. From a speech in Congress on the Revenue Bill of 1833. [Bombast, —... | |
| Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...and spangled courts, Where low-browea baseness wafts perfume to pride ; No ; men: high-minded men : 2 With powers, as far above dull brutes endued In forest,...But know their rights ; and, knowing, dare maintain: These constitute a state , 3 And sovereign law, that state's collected will, 4 The fiend discretion*... | |
| Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browod baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : men, high-minded...brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rnde ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed... | |
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