 | Francis Warre Cornish - Literature - 1900 - 604 pages
...to peace, and happiness; for that is your true dignity, to act with prudence and justice. That yon should first concede is obvious, from sound and rational...confidence on the foundations of affection and gratitude. 140 So thought a wise poet and a wise man in political sagacity, the friend of Mrecenas, and the eulogist... | |
 | Elizabeth Kimball Kendall - Great Britain - 1900 - 526 pages
...to peace and happiness : for that is your true dignity, to act with prudence and justice. That you should first concede is obvious, from sound and rational...confidence on the foundations of affection and gratitude. . . . " Every motive, therefore, of justice and of policy, of dignity and of prudence, urges you to... | |
 | Walford Davis Green - 1901 - 488 pages
...reputation on it : — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed. . . . Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power : Tuque prior, tu parce, projice tela manu. ... If the Ministers thus persevere in misadvising and... | |
 | Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1902 - 450 pages
...to peace, and happiness; for that is your true dignity, to act with prudence and justice. That you should first concede is obvious, from sound and rational...a wise man in political sagacity — the friend of Mecsenas, and the eulogist of Augustus. To him, the adopted son and successor of the first Caesar —... | |
 | John Frederick Schroeder - 1903 - 560 pages
...to peace, and happiness; for that is your true dignity, to act with prudence and justice. That you should first concede is obvious from sound and rational...and a wise man in political sagacity, the friend of Maecenas, and the eulogist of Augustus. To him the adopted son and successor of the first Caesar; to... | |
 | Walford Davis Green - Great Britain - 1906 - 492 pages
...reputation on it : — I will consent to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed. . . . Concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from superior power : Tuque prior, tu parce, projice tela manu. ... If the Ministers thus persevere in misadvising and... | |
 | Robert Macfarlan - 1911 - 572 pages
...your true dignity, to act with prudence and with justice. That you should first concede, is ob. vious from sound and rational policy ; concession comes with better grace and more salutary effect from the superior power; it reconciles superiority of power with the feelings of men, and establishes solid... | |
 | Godfrey Locker Lampson - Great Britain - 1918 - 628 pages
...peace, and to happiness : for that is your true dignity, to act with prudence and justice. That you should first concede is obvious, from sound and rational...comes with better grace and more salutary effect from the superior power ; it reconciles superiority of power with the feelings of men ; and establishes... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1919 - 336 pages
...peace, and to happiness ; for that is your true dignity, to act with prudence and justice. That you should first concede is obvious, from sound and rational...comes with better grace and more salutary effect from the superior power; it reconciles superiority of power with the feelings of men ; and establishes solid... | |
 | Frank Arthur Mumby - Great Britain - 1923 - 498 pages
...to peace and happiness : for that is your true dignity, to act with prudence and justice. That you should first concede is obvious, from sound and rational...So thought a wise poet and a wise man in political sagacity—the friend of Mecaenas, and the eulogist of Augustus. To him, the adopted son and successor,... | |
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... to be taken for an idiot, if they are not finally repealed. Avoid, then, this humiliating, disgraceful necessity. With a dignity becoming your exalted situation, make the first advances to concord, to peace, and happiness; for that is your true dignity,... 
