 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,...  Elegant Extracts: Book V. Pindaric, Horatian, and other odes ; Book VI ... - Page 1371826Full view - About this book
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - Science - 1830 - 350 pages
...starred and spangled courts, Where low browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued,...their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state , INTELLIGENCE... | |
 | A F. Kendall - 1830 - 704 pages
...accounts of various parts of the county. The Men of Kent fully realize the idea of Sir William Jones, of " Men, who their duties know, But know their rights; and, knowing, dare maintain 1" they have consequently always stood forward on occasions of threatened danger to liberty and property... | |
 | Education - 1833 - 414 pages
...battlement or labonr'd mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities fair, with spires and turrets crown'd; No : men — high-minded men — With powers as far...rocks and brambles rude — Men who their duties know, Know too their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant... | |
 | Robert Bland - English poetry - 1833 - 468 pages
...hattlement or labour'd mound, Thick wall or moated gate. Not cities fan- with spires and turrets crown'd. No : men — high-minded men — With powers as far...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 - Civilization - 1833 - 370 pages
...starred and spangled courts, Where low browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! Men, high minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued,...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... | |
 | Daniel Bishop - Christian sociology - 1835 - 748 pages
...navies ride ; Not 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 endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasbi excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing... | |
 | John Pitman - Rhode Island - 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... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 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; — and, knowing, dare maintain ,Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain ; — These constitute a slate, And... | |
 | Julius Rubens Ames - Antislavery movements - 1837 - 244 pages
...rich navies ride. Not starr'd and spangled courts, Where low brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride. No ! men, high-minded men ! With powers as far above...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.... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1838 - 796 pages
...low-brow'd baseness waits j)erfumo to pride. NO: — Men, high-minded men, With powers as far aliovo ndest wishes knew. Each soft enchantment of the soul...Thine be the joys to firm attachment due. As on she ihe tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; And sovereign law, that stale's collected... | |
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