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" Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together. "
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke - Page 79
by Edmund Burke - 1807
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A class-book of English prose, with biogr. notices, explanatory notes and ...

Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 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.i We ought to elevate...
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The American Orator's Own Book

1859 - 370 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, will, the old warning of the church, Sursum corda ! We ought. to elevate...
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The Life and Times of Charles James Fox, Volume 1

Earl John Russell Russell - 1859 - 398 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...and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our stution and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings in America with the old warning...
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The Prose and Prose Writers of Britain from Chaucer to Ruskin: With ...

Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 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.1 We ought to elevate...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1860 - 644 pages
...mentioned, have no suhstantial existence, are in truth every thing, and all in all. Magnanimity in polities is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire...situation, and glow with zeal to fill our places as hecomes our station and ourselves, ,ve ought to auspicate all our puhlic proceedings on America, with...
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Speeches: With Memoir and Historical Introductions

Edmund Burke - 1862 - 460 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...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...
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Foliorum centuriae, selections for translation into Latin and Greek prose ...

Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber. 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, Sursunt corda! We ought to elevate...
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Choice specimens of English literature, selected and arranged by T.B. Shaw ...

Thomas Budd Shaw, sir William Smith - 1864 - 554 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...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...
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Chambers's readings in English prose ... 1558 to 1860

Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 244 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 ! 1 We ought to elevate...
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Works, Volume 2

Edmund Burke - 1865 - 592 pages
...mentioned have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all.VMagnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire...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...
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