 | Edmund Burke - History - 1800 - 614 pages
...MEN, high-minded MEN, With pow'rs as far above dull brutes endued In foreft, brake, or den, As beafts excel cold rocks and brambles rude; Men, who their...their rights, and knowing dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crufh the tyrant while they rend the chain : Tbefe conftitute a ftate, And fov'reign... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1793 - 740 pages
...MEW, high-minded MEN, With powers as far above dull brutes endued 111 foreft, brake, or den, As beads excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; MEN who their...know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain.— If the prefent practice deviates from the principles of the Conftitution, he had furely a good light... | |
 | John Bell - English poetry - 1794 - 574 pages
...wafts perfume to pride . No :— MEN, high minded MEN, With pow'rs as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks...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... | |
 | Art - 1708 - 586 pages
...MEN, HIGH-MINDED MEN, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In foreft, brake, orden, As beafts excel cold rocks' and brambles rude : MEN, WHO THEIR...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. The eleilor... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1798 - 458 pages
...men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In foreft, brake, or den, As beafts excel cold rocks and brambles rude : Men, who their...But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain} Thefe conftitute a State, And fovereign law, that State's collected will, Prevent the long-aim'd blow,... | |
 | Stephen Jones, Charles Molloy Westmacott - English literature - 1799 - 468 pages
...men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued, In foreft, brake, or den, As beafts excel cold rocks and brambles rude : Men, who their...their rights, and knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crufh the tyrant, while they rend the chain: Thefe conftitute a State, And fovereign... | |
 | Apollo - 1800 - 224 pages
...MEN, high-minded MEN, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In foreft, brake, or den, As beafls excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men who their...their RIGHTS, and knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aim'd blow, And crufh the tyrant while they rend the chain : Thefe conllitute a flate, And fovereign... | |
 | Literature - 1806 - 422 pages
...baseness wafts perfume to pride j No ; MEN, highminded MEN, With powers as far above dull brutes, endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks...tyrant, while they rend the chain ; These constitute a. stare, And sovereign LAW, that state's collected -will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress,... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1808 - 526 pages
...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...:— These constitute a state, And sovereign LAW, t fiat state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing... | |
 | Richard Warner - 1808 - 142 pages
...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...THEIR DUTIES KNOW, BUT KNOW THEIR RIGHTS, AND KNOWING, DARK MAINTAIN', Prevent the long-aim'd bknr, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : • *... | |
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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,... 
