 WHAT CONSTITUTES A STATE? 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...  Fourth of July Orations1863Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
 | American-Irish Historical Society - 1911 - 530 страници
...fought well for American independence. What constitutes a state? Not high raised battlements or labor'd mound, Thick wall or moated gate. Not cities proud; with spires and turrets crown'd, Nor bays and broad arm'd ports: Where laughing at the storm rich navies ride. No, men — high-minded... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1950 - 576 страници
...line or two of that old stanza of poetry : "What constitutes the State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, thick wall or moated gate. Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned — Not bays and road-armed ports, where laughing at the storm rich navies ride • Not starred... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs - 1950 - 590 страници
...line or two of that old stanza of poetry : "What constitutes the State? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, thick wall or moated gate. Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned — Not bays and road-armed ports, where laughing at the storm rich navies ride; Not starred... | |
 | Illinois. Supreme Court - 1896 - 726 страници
...humble tribute to the memory of the deceased. "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... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 630 страници
...government. I might, in this connection, very appropriately ask— What constitutes a State? Not high raised battlements or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned. No! men, high minded menMen, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 818 страници
...community that forms an organic law. What constitutes a State? Not high rais'd battlement or labor'd mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned; Not bays and broad arm'd ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starr'd... | |
 | 1902 - 538 страници
...constitute a State. Let me quot« a few lines on that subject: What constitutes a State? Not high-raised battlements 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... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - 1999 - 676 страници
...other half, without their consent. "What constitutes a State? 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, dare maintain.... | |
 | James Brown Scott - 2002 - 1046 страници
...be memorized by every schoolboy:06 What constitutes a state? Not high-raised battlement or labour'd mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crown'd; Not bays and broad-armed ports, . . . No: — Men, high minded men, . . . Men, who their duties know, But know their... | |
 | 1873 - 354 страници
...political elevation of the people. " What constitutes a State ? Not high raised battlement and laboured 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; No — men,... | |
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