| George Perkins - 1869 - 60 páginas
...people ; alienate not from your body the affections of a whole empire. 19. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire...conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our place as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America,... | |
| English authors - 1869 - 458 páginas
...his most elevated style. It is there that his celebrated aphorism occurs : ' Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.' In the former speech are found his famous portraits of his most eminent contemporaries — the great... | |
| 1872 - 556 páginas
...mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire...station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the church, sursum corda ! We ought to elevate... | |
| Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 páginas
...have no substantial ex istence, are, in truth, everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Let us get an American revenue as we have got an American empire. English privileges have made it all... | |
| Noble Butler - 1874 - 342 páginas
...a word used to connect propositions or similar parts of propositions; as, "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together." — Burke. Here the first and connects two propositions; the second and conuccts two logical subjects,... | |
| Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 páginas
...hare no sub • in in in 1 existence, are in truth every thing and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire...conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our place as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 páginas
...mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. If we ure conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our station and ourselves,... | |
| Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 380 páginas
...have no substantial existence — are, in truth, everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together We ought to elevate our thoughts to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has... | |
| Lexington (Mass.) - 1875 - 198 páginas
...illustrated her civic wisdom, and Sumter and Marion her martial prowess. " Magnanimity," says Mr. Burke, " is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great ^empire and little minds go ill. together." Fellow-citizens, I offer you to-day the fraternal, patriotic greetings of South Carolina, — of all... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 páginas
...all sophistry. BuRKE: Speech on Conciliation with America, March 22, 1775. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire...conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our place as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America... | |
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