 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...such men as I have 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 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... | |
 | William Belsham - Great Britain - 1795 - 496 pages
...contribute in momi. deration—nor ought she to be permitted to exhaust herself. Magnanimity in polities is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to till our place as becomes our station ;... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...of all other virtues. But it is sometimes the worst enemy they have. DIGNITY AND ENERGY IN POLITICS. MAGNANIMITY in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom...and a great empire and little minds go ill together. If we make ourselves too little for the sphere of our duty ; if, on the contrary, we do not stretch... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...of all other virtues. But it is sometimes the worst enemy they have. DIGNITY AND ENERGY IN POLITICS. MAGNANIMITY in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom...and a great empire and little minds go ill together. If we make ourselves too little for the sphere of our duty ; if, on the contrary, we do not stretch... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth every thing, and all in all. Magnanimity in politicks is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our station... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth every thing, and all in all. Magnanimity in politicks is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and 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... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1811 - 252 pages
...of all other virtues. But it is sometimes the worst enemy they have. DIGNITY AND ENERGY IN POLITICS. MAGNANIMITY in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and littje minds go ill together. If we make ourselves too little for the sphere of our duty ; if, on the... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...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 empire and little minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our situation, and glov with zeal to fill our places as becomes our station... | |
 | Edmond Burke - English literature - 1815 - 240 pages
...of all other virtues. But it is sometimes the worst enemy they have. DIGNITY AND ENERGY IN POLITICS. MAGNANIMITY in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom...and a great empire and little minds go ill together. If we make ourselves too little for the sphere of our duty ; if, on the contrary, we do not stretch... | |
 | Charles Phillips - English orations - 1819 - 484 pages
...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 empire and little minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our station... | |
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magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together." "We ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called us. 
