 | Peter Burke - Politicians - 1845 - 490 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Jesse Olney - Elocution - 1845 - 348 pages
...qualified to be directors of the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine. 11. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these ruling and master principles, which, in the opimon of such men as I have mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth every tiling, and... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - English literature - 1846 - 630 pages
...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...existence, are in truth every thing, and all in all." This great man, in the latter part of his life, and when his opinions were less popular, was often... | |
 | Erasmus Darwin North - Elocution - 1846 - 454 pages
...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. V But to men - truly initiated, \/ and rightly taught, these ruling and master principles, which, in... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 624 pages
...are a set of men " who, (as it has been said of a class precisely similar,) so far from comprehending the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine." These men, composed as they are of broken down politicians and disappointed office-seekers, banded... | |
 | United States - 1848 - 594 pages
...a set of men '' who, (as it has been said of a class precisely similar,) so far from comprehending the great movement of empire, are not fit to turn a wheel in the machine." These men, composed as they are of broken down politicians and disappointed office-seekers, banded... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Readers - 1852 - 570 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 568 pages
...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...mentioned, have no substantial existence, are, in truth, everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in polities is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great Empire... | |
 | Epes Sargent - Elocution - 1852 - 570 pages
...exists but what is gross and material ; and who, therefore, far from being qualified to be direetors of the great movement of Empire, are not fit to turn...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... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 978 pages
...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...the opinion of such men as I have mentioned, have no sub stantial existence, are in truth every thing and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom... | |
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All this, I know well enough, will sound wild and 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 what is gross and material ; and who therefore,... 
