 In forest, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; 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;...  The Belfast Monthly Magazine - Page 391809Full view - About this book
 | 1844 - 620 pages
...sanctioning, and to magistrates and officers he had a share in controlling. These are principles befitting Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. If we sufibr ourselves to be cajoled into adopting the French system, then will England become, what... | |
 | John George Cochrane - 1844 - 636 pages
...sanctioning, and to magistrates and officers he had a share in controlling. These are principles befitting Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. If we suffer ourselves to be cajoled into adopting the French system, then will England become, what... | |
 | John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...courts, — Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride ! No ! — m&n, — high-minded M&N, — , Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain." Note. ' Concession and Unequal Antithesis.' Ex. " The clouds of adversity may darken over the Christian's... | |
 | 1891 - 516 pages
...as far above dull brutes endued, In forest, brake, or den, Аз beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude : 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... | |
 | Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus Elmer - 1845 - 16 pages
...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, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain;— These constitute a State, . . And... | |
 | William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...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, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain; — These constitute a state ; And... | |
 | Richard Winter Hamilton - 1845 - 378 pages
...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 dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State ! And Sovereign... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 976 pages
...its appurtenances. V 2d, The watrrs and theirs. Derham. Physico-Theology, vol. i. book iii. p. 97. 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 rend the chain : These constitute a state. Jones.... | |
 | Jacob K. Neff - 1845 - 642 pages
...spangled courts, Where low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride, No ; — men ; high-minded men : — Men, who 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... | |
 | William Russell - 1845 - 392 pages
...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, dare maintain." EXERCISE XLIX. — FALSE ELOQUENCE. — Anon. From a speech in Congress on the Revenue Bill of 1833.... | |
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