 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,...  The Eaton Readers... - Page 187edited by - 1906Full view - About this book
 | Robert Bland - 1833 - 468 pages
...fan- with spires and turrets crown'd. No : men — high-minded men — With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts...rocks and brambles rude. Men, who their duties know, Know too their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, STESICHORUS.f STESICHORUS, a native of Himera in... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1833 - 370 pages
...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, dare maintain, Prevent the long aimed... | |
 | John Evans - 1834 - 306 pages
...brow'd Baseness wafts perfume to Pride : No ! — men, high minded men, With pow'rs as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts...rights,— and knowing, dare maintain: Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. These constitute A STATE. And sovereign... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - 1835 - 748 pages
...men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasbi excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their...know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain !" 35. Demosthenes, speaking of certain free states, calls them their own legislators. — (Demosthenis... | |
 | Edward Everett - 1836 - 654 pages
...starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfumes to pride.No! men! high-minded men, Men who their duties know, But know their rights;...while they rend the chain ; — These constitute a slate, And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Siti empress,... | |
 | John Pitman - 1836 - 88 pages
...with Napoleon in arms. But it is not wealth which constitutes a State — " No; men, high minded men ; 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." Such have... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 244 pages
...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...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. True Politics.... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - 1837 - 716 pages
...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. True Polilks. EDWARD LYTTON BULWER. It is in vain that they oppose OPINION ; any tiling else they may... | |
 | John Aikin, John Frost - 1838 - 752 pages
...low-brow'd haseness wafts perfume to pride. NO : — Men, high-minded men, With powers as far ahove dull long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; And sovereign... | |
 | 1838 - 332 pages
...low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ; — men, high-minded men, With powers as tar above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts...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, And sovereign... | |
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