 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 574 pages
...principle over power and interest, so well described by one who was an honor to the age ; — " And sovereign Law, the state's collected will, O'er thrones...elate, Sits empress, — crowning good, repressing ill : Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend, Discretion, like a vapor, sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling crown... | |
 | DANIEL WEBSTER - 1853 - 778 pages
...And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; And SOVEREIGN LAW, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill." And, finally, another most important part of the great fabric of American liberty is, that there shall... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1853 - 644 pages
...And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; And SOVEREIGN LAW, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill." And, finally, another most important part of the great fabric of American liberty is, that there shall... | |
 | Clavin Henderson Wiley - Readers - 1855 - 380 pages
...And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. The author of this poem was an English gentleman, statesman, lawyer, and scholar; and his many learned... | |
 | Frederick Saunders, Thomas Bangs Thorpe - America - 1855 - 436 pages
...are in every true American heart. THE RIGHT OF THE MAJORITY TO RULE. " And sovereign Law, the world's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress— crowning good, repressing ill." MAN was created for society : the necessity of laws for governing his relations to his fellows is,... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1856 - 660 pages
...Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain. And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.* CAPTAIN... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain: These constitute a Slate, Ami sovereign LAW, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill; Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend Discretion like a vapor sinks, And e'en th' all-dazzling Crown... | |
 | R. McCullam - Cavan (Ireland : County) - 1856 - 324 pages
...And crash the tyrant, while they rend the chain. These constitute a state : And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill." REVIEW OF THE CONSERVATIVE POWER OF CHRISTIANITY. AT the close of these Historical Illustrations, we... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - American literature - 1848 - 786 pages
...And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a State, And sovereign LAW, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill ; Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend Discretion like a vapor sinks, And e'en th' all-dazzling Crown... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1858 - 516 pages
...blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. These constitute a state; And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill : Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend Discretion, like a vapor, sinks, And e'en the all-dazzling crown... | |
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Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, — These constitute a State ; And sovereign law, that State's collected will, • O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. 
