 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 páginas
...obedience, without which your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom:...proceedings on America, with the old warning of the Church, Sursunt corda! We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 páginas
...such men as I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom...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... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 páginas
...such men as I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom,...proceedings on America -with the old warning of the church, sursum corda ! 1 We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 páginas
...have mentioned have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all.VMagnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and...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... | |
 | 1886 - 924 páginas
...forget — his speech on Conciliation with America, particularly the magnificent passage beginning, " Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom,...a great empire and little minds go ill together." You have echoed back the words in which, in his letter to the Sheriffs of Bristol on the hateful American... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1868 - 1074 páginas
...admirer», will be widely distant from the lasting convictions of the heart. Let me say, with Edmund Burke, magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom,...and a great empire and little minds go ill together. It is the love of the people, it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep... | |
 | George Perkins - 1869 - 60 páginas
...peace-loving but a resolute people ; alienate not from your body the affections of a whole empire. 19. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom...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
...the noblest specimen of his most elevated style. It is there that his celebrated aphorism occurs : ' Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom...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
...such men as I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom,...proceedings on America with the old warning of the church, sursum corda ! We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence... | |
 | Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 páginas
...men as I have mentioned, 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... | |
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. 
