| Daniel Webster - 1853 - 644 頁
...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 blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; And SOVEREIGN... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 頁
...far above dull brutes indued, 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 blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; And sovereign... | |
| Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 頁
...far above dull brutes endu'd, 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 blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain — These constitute a state. Sir... | |
| DANIEL WEBSTER - 1853 - 778 頁
...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 blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain : These constitute a state ; And SOVEREIGN... | |
| George Handel HILL - 1853 - 290 頁
...far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rooks and brambles rude : Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain, Present the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain — These constitute a... | |
| Ohio. General Assembly. House of Representatives - 1853 - 102 頁
...America, but in its men—its high-souled men. "What constitutes a state? ******* * * * High-minded raen ; Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain : These constitute a state." Conflagrations may ruin the proudest cities, and soon again are reared... | |
| Illinois. Supreme Court - 1896 - 726 頁
...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 blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain. These constitute a State." The worth... | |
| 1886 - 332 頁
...law as expressed by the poet, Sir William Jones, in these lines of his Ode in imitation of Alcoeus : And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sita Empress, crowning good, repressing ill. — PUts. Leg. Jour. •»»» . JUSTICE RATHER THAN LAW.... | |
| Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 818 頁
...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 aim'd blow, And crush the tyrant, while they rend the chain: — These constitute a State.18 Not... | |
| Andrew Johnson - 1967 - 630 頁
...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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