 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...  Famous Single and Fugitive Poems - Page 80edited by - 1890 - 364 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...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...rights : and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And wash the tyrant, while they rend the chain. These constitute a state : And sovereign... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...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 beasts eicel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties know, Bat know their rights, and knowing,... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1881 - 792 pages
...spangled courts, Where low browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : — men, high-minded men, * * Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain." Because the Sabbath promotes the constant and systematic study of the Bible, which sets forth our duties... | |
 | William Russell - Elocution - 1851 - 392 pages
...navies ride; Not starred and spangled courts, — Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride ! No ! men, — high-minded men, With powers as far...But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain." EXERCISE XLIX. FALSE ELOQUENCE. From a speech in Congress on the Revenue Bill of 1833. [Bombast, —... | |
 | Henry Mandeville - Readers - 1851 - 396 pages
...and spangled courts, Where low-browea baseness wafts perfume to pride ; No ; men: high-minded men : 2 With powers, as far above dull brutes endued In forest,...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*... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browod baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : men, high-minded men, With powers as far above...brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rnde ; Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1851 - 764 pages
...rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. ; and thou majestic main, A secret world of wonders...thyself, Sound Hii itupendous praise, whose greate ercel cold rock« and brambles rude ; Men who their duties know, But know their right*, and, knowing,... | |
 | John Hill Wheeler - North Carolina - 1851 - 876 pages
...Where lota-brow 'd baseness wafts perfume to pride ! - , JV0, Men, hieli-minded men — * * * * « * Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain." SIR WILLIAM JOKES. The deep sensation which pervades our State, caused by the recent death of CHARLES... | |
 | Daniel Webster - History - 1851 - 30 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 dull brutes endued In forests, brake or den, As beasts excel cold rock and brambles rude: Men who their duties know, But... | |
 | John Hill Wheeler - North Carolina - 1851 - 644 pages
...courts, Where low-brow d baseness wafts perfume to pride ! No, Men, high-minded men — ****** AT*-/', who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain." SIR WILLIAM JONES. The deep sensation which pervades our State, caused by the recent death of CHARLES... | |
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