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Readings in Literature - Page 46
by Franklin Benjamin Dyer, Mary J. Brady - 1919
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The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces ...

John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 440 pages
...with spires and turrets crowned, Not bays and broad-armed p6rts, Where, laughing at the storm, proud navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, —...wafts perfume to pride ! No ! — men, — high-minded M&N, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain." Note. 'Concession...
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The American Common-school Reader and Speaker: Being a Selection of Pieces ...

John Goldsbury, William Russell - 1844 - 444 pages
...with spires and turrets crowned, Not bttys and broad -armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, proud navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, —...Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride ! No ! — m&n, — high-minded M&N, — , Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing,...
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The American Elocutionist: Comprising "Lessons in Enunciation', "Exercises ...

William Russell - 1844 - 428 pages
...with spires and turrets crown'd, Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, proud navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, —...Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride ! No ! -ffign,— high-minded men, With powerTas"taf above 'dull brutes endued, In forest, brake, or den,...
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The Foreign quarterly review [ed. by J.G. Cochrane]., Volume 32

John George Cochrane - 1844 - 636 pages
...sanctioning, and to magistrates and officers he had a share in controlling. These are principles befitting Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. If we suffer ourselves to be cajoled into adopting the French system, then will England become, what...
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The Foreign Quarterly Review, Volumes 32-33

1844 - 620 pages
...sanctioning, and to magistrates and officers he had a share in controlling. These are principles befitting Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and knowing dare maintain. If we suffer ourselves to be cajoled into adopting the French system, then will England become, what...
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Sharpe's London magazine, a journal of entertainment and ..., Volumes 6-7

Anna Maria Hall - 818 pages
...battlements or laboured mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities fair, with spire or turret crowned ; No ; men, high-minded men, With powers as far above...forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks or brambles rude — Men, who their duties know — Know too their rights, and knowing dare maintain,...
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The Army and Navy of America: Containing a View of the Heroic Adventures ...

Jacob K. Neff - 1845 - 642 pages
...spangled courts, Where low-brow'd baseness wafts perfume to pride, No ; — men ; high-minded men : — Men, who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain ; Prevent the long-aim'd Mow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a state." Two regiments...
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Materials for thinking extracted from the works of the learned of all ages

Materials - 1846 - 478 pages
...Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Nor 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 endu'd, In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude ; Men, who their duties...
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The Gem book of poesie, by the author of 'The ancient poets and poetry of ...

Gem book - 1846 - 398 pages
...ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starr'd and spangled courts, Where low-bred baseness 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 and brambles rude, — Men, who their...
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A Practical Grammar of the English Language

Noble Butler - 1846 - 276 pages
...with spires and turrets crowned ; Not boys and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; • Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. — Sir W. Jonu. What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted ? Thrice Is he armed that bath his...
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