 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1889 - 556 pages
...turn a wheel 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...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, \ve do not stretch... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1807 - 560 pages
...turn a wheel 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...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 512 pages
...turn a wheel 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...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... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1808 - 518 pages
...turn a wheel 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...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... | |
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1813 - 768 pages
...turn a wheel 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...mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth every thing, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not sel[5SS dorn the truest wisdom ; and a... | |
 | Joshua P. Slack - Elocution - 1815 - 340 pages
...turn a wheel 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...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... | |
 | 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... | |
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... 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, these ruling and master... 
