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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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Proceedings at the Centennial Celebration of the Battle of Lexington, April ...

Lexington (Mass.) - 1875 - 198 pages
...illustrated her civic wisdom, and Sumter and Marion her martial prowess. " Magnanimity," says Mr. Burke, " is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great ^empire and little minds go ill. together." Fellow-citizens, I offer you to-day the fraternal, patriotic greetings of South Carolina, — of all...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...all sophistry. BuRKE: Speech on Conciliation with America, March 22, 1775. 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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Centennial Offering: Republication of the Principles and Acts of the ...

Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 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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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 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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Centennial Offering: Republication of the Principles and Acts of the ...

Hezekiah Niles - 1876 - 536 pages
...little minds go ill together. If we are 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, with the old warning of the church, fur sum corda I We ought to elevate...
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The Literary Reader: Typical Selections Form Some of the Best British and ...

George Rhett Cathcart - 1877 - 454 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...becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the Church, Sursum Corda ! * We ought to...
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The treasury of British eloquence, compiled by R. Cochrane

Robert Cochrane (miscellaneous writer) - 1877 - 558 pages
...mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything and all in all. Magnanimity in politics *` d Q% L ܤn place as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America...
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The Treasury of British Eloquence: Specimens of Brilliant Orations by the ...

Robert Cochrane - 1877 - 560 pages
...mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth everything and all in all. Magnanimity in politics e judge could only have been struck place as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America...
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Burke, Select Works, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - 1883 - 396 pages
...chimerical to the profane herd of those vulgar and mechanical politicians, who have no place among us ; a sort of people who think that nothing exists but...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...
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The Literary Reader: Typical Selections from Some of the Best British and ...

George Rhett Cathcart - 1878 - 446 pages
...mentioned, have no substantial existeuce, are in truth everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in polities is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire...becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the Church, Siirsam Corda ! * We ought to...
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