 | John Wilson, John Gibson Lockhart, James Hogg - 1854 - 516 pages
...or den, * As brutes excel cold rocks and brambles rude : "• * Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain, Prevent the...while they rend the chain : These constitute a State. " — M. Shepherd. Gie them first time to get intill existence — and then they'll Opium-Eater. —... | |
 | 1855 - 838 pages
...forest, brake, or den, As beasts eicel cold rocks or brambles rude — Meu, who their duties knowKnow too their rights, and knowing dare maintain, Prevent the...blow. And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain." Let us leave the Greeks, therefore, pure Simonidcs and that other Sappho — wo do not mean the hu.lv... | |
 | Clavin Henderson Wiley - Readers - 1855 - 380 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.... | |
 | One of 'em - American literature - 1855 - 330 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. BLESSING THE BEASTS. BY GRACE GREENWOOD. WE went, last Sunday, to see the blessing of beasts — an... | |
 | William Henry Bogart - Frontier and pioneer life - 1856 - 490 pages
...moated gate ; Not cities proud. * * * * Men, high-minded Men, * * * Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain — Prevent...tyrant while they rend the chain— THESE CONSTITUTE THE STATE." It is well for us to go back to those days. They do not belong to Virginia alone, but to... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1856 - 518 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,1 that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing... | |
 | R. McCullam - Cavan (Ireland : County) - 1856 - 324 pages
...are and should be the conservators of the country. " They are men who their duties know, 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."... | |
 | Charles Northend - Orators - 1856 - 276 pages
...Men, who their duties know, But know ttieir rights, and knowing dare maintain, Prevent, the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; — These constitute a state. EXERCISE LXIX. INTEMPERANCE. the prolific mother-of crime ; the fertile source of disease, misery,... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 570 pages
...Men, who their Duties know, But know their Eights, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crush the Tyrant, while they rend the chain : These constitute a State. ,— Pope. STATESMAN, yet friend to Truth ! of soul sincere, In action faithful, and in Honour clear... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - English literature - 1856 - 800 pages
...Men. who their duties know, But know their righti, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd 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,... | |
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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,... 
