 ... to rely on the little arts of party delusion to obtain public sanction for such a course. Born for his country and for the world, he did not give up to party what was meant for mankind. The consequence is, that his fame is as durable as his principles,...  Railway Mechanical and Electrical Engineer - Page 1691832Full view - About this book
 | A. B. Cleveland - 1832 - 496 pages
...selfish ends, and to rely on the little arts of party delusion to obtain public sanction for such a course. Born for his country, and for the world, he...themselves. While the hundreds whom party excitement, and temporary circumstances, and casual combinations, have raised into transient notoriety, sink again,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1851 - 634 pages
...selfish ends, nor to rely on the little arts of party delusion to obtain public sanction for such a course. Born for his country and for the world, he...themselves. While the hundreds whom party excitement, and temporary circumstances, and casual combinations, have raised into transient notoriety, sink again,... | |
 | 1851 - 398 pages
...They then gloriously belied the oft-repeated imputation upon one who was once a great Whig, and they did not " Give up to party what was meant for mankind." The Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel, I acknowledge, acted on this occasion upon considerations much... | |
 | A. R. Phippen - 1854 - 472 pages
...rely on the little arts of party delusion to obtain public sanction for such a course. Born for his11 country and for the world, he did not give up to party...themselves. While the hundreds whom party excitement, and temporary circumstances, and casual combinations have* raised into transient notoriety1 sink again,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1853
...selfish ends, nor to rely on the little arts of party delusion to obtain public sanction for such a course. Born for his country and for the world, he...themselves. While the hundreds whom party excitement, and temporary circumstances, and casual combinations, have raised into transient notoriety, sink again,... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1854 - 640 pages
...selfish ends, nor to rely on the little arts of party delusion to obtain public sanction for such a course. Born for his country and for the world, he...themselves. While the hundreds whom party excitement, and temporary circumstances, and casual combinations, have raised into transient notoriety, sink again,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin Tefft - 1854 - 554 pages
...selfish ends, nor to rely on the little arts of party delusion to obtain public sanction for such a course. Born for his country and for the world, he...themselves. While the hundreds whom party excitement, and temporary circumstances, and casual combinations, have raised into transient notoriety, sink again,... | |
 | George Robertson - 1855 - 422 pages
...was, in his case, as venial and slight as it ever was in the case of any other man who ever lived. He did not "give up to party what was meant for mankind" — nor was he intolerant, prescriptive or factious, or ever influenced by any selfish or sinister... | |
 | Daniel Webster - 1860 - 542 pages
...selfish ends, nor to rely on the little arts of party delusion to obtain public sanction for such a course. Born for his country and for the world, he...themselves. While the hundreds whom party excitement, and temporary circumstances, and casual combinations, have raised into transient notoriety, sink again,... | |
 | 1863 - 774 pages
...indeed there is in all times. Our astrologer, professing a high art, standing above the common level, did not give ' up to party what was meant for mankind.' The stars look down, from their high places, on sublunary things, with a sublime indifference ; and he,... | |
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