 | Noble Butler - English language - 1879 - 298 pages
...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 connects two logical subjects,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...March 22, 1775. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and liltle minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our...station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the Church, Sursutn corifa ! We ought to elevate... | |
 | Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 392 pages
...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 - American literature - 1881 - 842 pages
...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 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...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 - English language - 1883 - 612 pages
...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...station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the church, Surmm corda ! We ought to elevate... | |
 | Charles Kendall Adams - 1884 - 354 pages
...mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth every thing 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 proceeding on America with the old warning of the church, sursum corda! 81 We ought to elevate... | |
 | Martha Gellhorn - Biography & Autobiography - 1988 - 354 pages
...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 - Biography & Autobiography - 1988 - 354 pages
...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 - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...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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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. 
