 | Noble Butler - 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,... | |
 | 1879 - 516 pages
...empire be maintained without a deep and all-pervading sentiment of loyalty. " Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 pages
...March 22, 1775. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and liltle x pJ RAy b u j 3 DO e JH elT8 ?v J ^ Y ! % @ ! P < g x 9 $nR!- place as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
 | Martha Gellhorn - 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 - 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 - 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,... | |
 | Peter David Garner Thomas - 1991 - 372 pages
...would sound 'wild and chimerical to ... vulgar and mechanical politicans. . . . Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.' Burke's vision of an empire in which the colonies were freely associated with Britain found little... | |
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together. 
