 | Oratory - 1808 - 540 pages
...can conduce to the strength and safety of a state. « What constitutes a state ? " Not high rais'd battlement or labored mound, " Thick wall, or moated gate ; " Not cities proud with spires and turrets crown'd ; " Not bays and broad-armed ports, " Where laughing at the storm proud mavies... | |
 | 1863 - 538 pages
...and maintenance of our political systems : " What constitutes a State? Not high rais'd battlements or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crown'd; Not bays and broad arm'd ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride;... | |
 | Edward Everett - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1836 - 654 pages
...poet, is so beautifully realized : — ' What constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement, and labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned; * Colon! PurtiarU. Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm,... | |
 | Noah Porter - Farmington (Conn.) - 1841 - 112 pages
...themselves to the improvement of the men who uphold them. Men are what we need. if _ • " These constitute a state",— | " Not high-raised battlement or labored...wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned, Where laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts,... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...protected ? against what? and when? It is the STATE that is to he protected. What constitutes the State ? " What constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement...wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride;... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 494 pages
...the strain, Earth rolls the rapturous hosanna round ! LESSON CLIX. The Idea of a State. SIR w. JOKES. WHAT constitutes a state ? Not high-raised battlement...wall, or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride... | |
 | William Draper Swan - American literature - 1845 - 482 pages
...rapturous hosanna round! LESSON CLIX. The Idea of a State. SIR w. JONES. WHAT constitutes a state 1 Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick...wall, or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1847 - 752 pages
...monuments, but in its disciplined men. ' WHAT constitute« a state ? Not high-raised battlements, and labored mound, Thick wall, or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed porU, Where, laughing at the storm, proud navies ride... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 498 pages
...brightness, rendering all glory from War impossible. Well does the poet say, with most persuasive truth, What constitutes a State ? Not high-raised battlement...wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned j Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich, navies ride;... | |
 | Charles Sumner - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1850 - 498 pages
...War impossible. Well does the poet say, with most persuasive truth, What constitutes a State ? fiot high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich names ride... | |
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What constitutes a state! Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride; Not starred and spangled... 
