 | Nicholas Deakin - Philosophy - 2000 - 370 pages
...invigorates, vivifies every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member. "... Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. . . ." BURKE, 1775. 60 BUT is this society of ours purchased at the expense of a slave population scattered... | |
 | Elisabeth Glaser, Hermann Wellenreuther - History - 2002 - 332 pages
...1n variation of Burkes remark in On Conciliation with America (1775), 62: "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together." PART FlVE Transatlantic History and American Exceptionalism 11 Transatlantic History as National History?... | |
 | Samuel B. Griffith - History - 2002 - 780 pages
...tainted breeze." Burke closed his three-hour speech with an urgent appeal: "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great Empire and little minds go ill together."12 He called upon his colleagues to elevate their minds "to the greatness of that trust to... | |
 | John B. Morrall - Philosophy - 2004 - 162 pages
...is loosened; and everything hastens to decay and dissolution. As he put it 'Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.'** Burke's American thought was the series of public utterances of a party politician, a collection of... | |
 | Robert Cowley - History - 2004 - 324 pages
...the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery. . . . Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great Empire and little minds go ill together." A few weeks later, musket fire was echoing through eastern Massachusetts — but suppose it never did?... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 2005 - 848 pages
...felix faustumque sit) lay the first stone of the Temple of peace ; and I move you, SURSUM CORDA / 533 that liberal obedience, without which your army would...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 2005 - 237 pages
...have no substantial existence, are 85 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 are conscions of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our place as becomes our station and ourselves,... | |
 | Irwin Abrams - Political Science - 2005 - 180 pages
...Critics say that concessions are a sign of weakness. Burke, however says, "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together." Prophetic words when we think of the history of the British Empire. And we Unionists are the inheritors... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 718 pages
...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... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - History - 2006 - 469 pages
...others; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants." "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together." Here you have the whole spirit of the man, and in part a view of his eminently practical system of... | |
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. 
