Where low.browed 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,... THE WORKS OF DANIEL WEBSTER - Страница 489по DANIEL WEBSTER - 1853Пълен достъп - Информация за книгата
| John George Cochrane - 1844 - 636 страници
...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... | |
| William Russell - 1844 - 428 страници
...Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride ! No ! -ffign,— high-minded men, With powerTas"taf 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."... | |
| John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 страници
...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... | |
| Anna Maria Hall - 818 страници
...battlements or laboured mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities fair, with spire or turret crowned ; No ; men, high-minded men, With powers as far above...forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks or brambles rude — Men, who their duties know — Know too their rights, and knowing dare maintain,... | |
| Jacob K. Neff - 1845 - 642 страници
...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... | |
| Materials - 1846 - 478 страници
...Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Nor 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 endu'd, In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties... | |
| Gem book - 1846 - 398 страници
...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... | |
| 1918 - 758 страници
...Not territory; not armies and munitions, or even laws and institutions — but "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... | |
| William Peter - 1847 - 568 страници
...battlement or laboured mound, Thick wall or moated gate : Not cities fair, with spires and turrets crown'd : No : — Men, high-minded men — / With powers as...and brambles rude — Men, who» their duties know, Know too their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant,... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1847 - 752 страници
...and ttpaugled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafu perfumes to pride ; No! m? n I high minded men, Men who their duties know, But know their rights ;...maintain ; 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... | |
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