 | Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly...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... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1877 - 454 pages
...and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly...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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1877 - 582 pages
...and who, therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly...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... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - Orators - 1877 - 560 pages
...and who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not ustly as an orator would require a long essay. Everywhere natural, he carried ifato public something of t priuciples, which, in the opinion of such men as I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1883 - 396 pages
...•who therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly...truth every thing, and all in all. Magnanimity in politicks is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. .... | |
 | James De Mille - English language - 1878 - 584 pages
...writings abound in this : " The blood of man should never be shed but to redeem the blood of man." " Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom,...a great empire and little minds go ill together." " Slavery they can have anywhere. It is a weed that grows in every soil." " My hold of the colonies... | |
 | English literature - 1879 - 516 pages
...diplomatists, nor could a mighty empire be maintained without a deep and all-pervading sentiment of loyalty. " Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom,...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... | |
 | Noble Butler - English language - 1879 - 298 pages
...CONJUNCTIONS. A CONJUNCTION is a word used to connect propositions or similar parts of propositions; as, "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest...a great empire and little minds go ill together." — Burke. Here the first and connects two propositions; the second and connects two logical subjects,... | |
 | David Charles Bell - Elocution - 1879 - 556 pages
...not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But, to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling principles — which, in the opinion of such men as...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,... | |
 | Maurice Paterson - 1880 - 392 pages
...and who, therefore, far from being qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling principles — which, in the opinion of such men as I have mentioned, have no substantial existence... | |
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But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master principles, which, in the opinion of 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... 
