 | Congregational churches - 1918 - 758 pages
..."men, high-minded men, men who their duties know, but know their rights, and knowing dare maintain, who crush the tyrant while they rend the chain .these constitute a state." The lineal descendants of the early New England colonists have a personal reason for being interested... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1847 - 672 pages
...know their rights ; and knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrants, 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 rood, repressing ill.'... | |
 | John Aikin - English poetry - 1850 - 764 pages
...Men, who their duties know, Bat 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 ; And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill:... | |
 | George Croly - English poetry - 1850 - 442 pages
...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, And sovereign Law, that Flute's collected will, JONES. Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill ; Smit by her sacred frown... | |
 | Robert Joseph Sullivan - 1850 - 524 pages
...duties know, But know their 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 law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ilL... | |
 | William Knight Northall - Biography & Autobiography - 1850 - 208 pages
...Men who their duties know, Bat know their rights, and knowing dare maintain, Present the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain, These constitute a State. Though New England cannot boast of rich plantations, and gangs of laborers producing vast crops of... | |
 | Abraham Mills - English literature - 1851 - 616 pages
...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, And sovereign Law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill ;... | |
 | Daniel Webster - History - 1851 - 30 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; And SOVEREIGN LAW, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate And, finally, another most important part of... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 640 pages
...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 ; And SOVEREIGN LAW, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill."... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1851 - 672 pages
...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 ; And SOVEREIGN LAW, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill."... | |
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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,... 
