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,... Bengal as a Field of Missions - Página 310por Macleod Wylie - 1854 - 389 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Daniel Webster - 1851 - 672 páginas
...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...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,... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 páginas
...far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rnde ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights,...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,... | |
| Abraham Mills - 1851 - 616 páginas
...forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rnde; Men who their duties know, Bat know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent...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,... | |
| Henry Mandeville - 1851 - 396 páginas
...pride ; No ; men: high-minded men : 2 With powers, as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude...But know their rights ; and, knowing, dare maintain: These constitute a state , 3 And sovereign law, that state's collected will, 4 The fiend discretion*... | |
| William Russell - 1851 - 392 páginas
...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,...But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain." EXERCISE XLIX. FALSE ELOQUENCE. From a speech in Congress on the Revenue Bill of 1833. [Bombast, —... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 páginas
...den, As beasts ercel cold rock« and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their right*, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed...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,... | |
| Daniel Webster - 1851 - 30 páginas
...MEN, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forests, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rock and brambles rude: Men who their duties know, But...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... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1896 - 726 páginas
...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;...while they rend the chain. These constitute a State." The worth of a State, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it. This is the observation... | |
| Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 818 páginas
...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;...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.18 Not... | |
| Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 630 páginas
...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 maintain. These constitute a State.29 As I before remarked, this is the dividing line between the Democratic... | |
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