 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,...  Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Page 251by Daniel Webster - 1848Full view - About this book
 | 1806 - 422 pages
...the 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, crowning good, repressing ill 5 Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend, discretion, like a vapor, sinks, And e'en the alldazzling crown... | |
 | Benjamin Flower - 1808 - 526 pages
...tyrant, while they rend the chain :— These constitute a state, And sovereign LAW, t fiat state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits Empress, crowning good, repressing ill. Sim't by her sacred frown, The fiend oppression, like a tapour sinks. And e'en- the all-dazzling crown... | |
 | 1826 - 310 pages
...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 ; I Smit by her sacred frown, The fiend, Discretion, like a vapour sinks, And e'en th' all-dazzling... | |
 | William Wirt - 1826 - 690 pages
...Sir William Jones, rising into poetical enthusiasm, has proclaimed, that " Sovereign law, the state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill." But if we contemplate it in a narrower view, as a mere system of regulations for the safety and harmony... | |
 | 1827 - 542 pages
...and civilization have labored together; it seems, indeed, to be a law of our human condition, that they can live and flourish only together. From their...well described by one who was an honor to the age — '" Ami sovereign Law, the world's collected will. O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits Empress —... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1827 - 398 pages
...chain : These constitute a state ; 252 INTELLIGENCE OP THE PEOPLt. And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. We may be told that this is a vision ofa perfect commonwealth ; and so it is :— still the hopes of... | |
 | Levi Washburn Leonard - 1830 - 350 pages
...the chain : These constitute a state , INTELLIGENCE OF TBB PEOPLE. And sovereign law, that state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill. We may be told that this is a vision of a perfect commonwealth ; and so it is : — still the hopes... | |
 | 1834 - 414 pages
...portrayed by Sir William Jones, in his splendid vision of a perfect state. " And sovereign law the world.s collected will, O.er thrones and globes elate, Sits empress ! crowning good, repressing ill. Sinit by her sacred frown, The fiend Discretion like a vapor sinks, And e.en the all.dazzling crown,... | |
 | George Lunt - 1835 - 28 pages
...Jurisprudence' will still continue to illuminate and bless the world : ' While' " Sovereign Law, the states' collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate, Sits...empress, crowning good, repressing ill : Smit by her frown, The fiend discretion like a vapor shrinks, And e'en the dazzling crown Hides its faint rays... | |
 | Joseph Story - 1835 - 558 pages
...Sir William Jones, rising into poetical enthusiasm, has proclaimed, that " Sovereign law, the state's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill." But if we contemplate it in a narrower view, as a mere system of regulations for the safety and harmony... | |
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