| 1879 - 516 páginas
...empire be maintained without a deep and all-pervading sentiment of loyalty. " Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together."* Such was the spirit of Burke. This tendency to look back to the past with affection and regret, and... | |
| Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 páginas
...March 22, 1775. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and liltle x pJ RAy b u j 3 DO e JH elT8 ?v J ^ Y ! % @ ! P < g x 9 $nR!-q ҏ Xu on America with the old warning of the Church, Sursutn corifa ! We ought to elevate our minds to the... | |
| Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 392 páginas
...no substantial existence — are, in truth, everything, and all in all. s. 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 ordinance of Providence... | |
| Robert Chambers - 1881 - 842 páginas
...empire, even clown to the minutest member. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, nnd a great empire and little minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our situation and glow with ze:il to fill our places at* becomes pur station and ourselves, we ouirht to auspicate all our public... | |
| Richard Fletcher Charles - 1882 - 360 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...minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our station, and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our situation and ourselves, we ought to... | |
| James Baldwin - 1883 - 612 páginas
...feeds, unites, invigorates, vivifies every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member. . . . If we are conscious of our situation, and glow with...ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the church, Surmm corda ! We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness... | |
| Alexander Charles Ewald - 1884 - 668 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...ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the church, Sursum corda ! We ought to elevate our minds to the... | |
| Martha Gellhorn - 1988 - 354 páginas
...fear of a mouse. I prefer Edmund Burke to any panic speeches from Washington: "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together." Rule by Terror July 1983 President Reagan once described the Vietnam catastrophe as "that noble cause."... | |
| Martha Gellhorn - 1988 - 354 páginas
...prefer Edmund Burke to any panic speeches from Washington: "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom die truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together." Tferrop July 1983 President Reagan once described the Vietnam catastrophe as "that noble cause." Recently... | |
| Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 páginas
...food to the people will win. Lech Walesa (b. 1943) Polish Solidarity leader Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman Politics is the diversion of trivial men who,... | |
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