 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1868 - 1074 pages
...admirer», will be widely distant from the lasting convictions of the heart. Let me say, with Edmund Burke, magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom,...and a great empire and little minds go ill together. It is the love of the people, it is their attachment to their government, from the sense of the deep... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 pages
...the noblest specimen of his most elevated style. It is there that his celebrated aphorism occurs : ' Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom...a great empire and little minds go ill together.' In the former speech are found his famous portraits of his most eminent contemporaries — the great... | |
 | 1872 - 556 pages
...in the machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master principles, which, in the opinion of such men as I have mentioned,...conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America... | |
 | Patrick O'Shea - 1873 - 524 pages
...master principles which, in the opinion of such men as I have mentioned, have no substantial ex istence, are, in truth, everything, and all in all. Magnanimity...and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Let us get an American revenue as we have got an American empire. English privileges have made it all... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1874 - 342 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 conuccts two logical subjects,... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 pages
...in tin' machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master principles, which, in the opinion of such men as I have mentioned,...great empire and little minds go ill together. If we ure conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our station and ourselves,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 380 pages
...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,...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 order of Providence has... | |
 | 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... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1876 - 660 pages
...the opinion of such men as I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth every thing, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom....conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...in the machine. 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 every thing, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great... | |
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... who think that nothing exists but what is gross and material, 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,... 
