 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1868 - 1074 str.
...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... | |
 | George Perkins - 1869 - 60 str.
...people ; alienate not from your body the affections of a whole empire. 19. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire...station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America, with the old warning of the church, Sursum corda. We ought to elevate... | |
 | English authors - 1869 - 458 str.
...his most elevated style. It is there that his celebrated aphorism occurs : ' Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and 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 str.
...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...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 str.
...have no substantial ex istence, 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. Let us get an American revenue as we have got an American empire. English privileges have made it all... | |
 | Noble Butler - 1874 - 342 str.
...a word used to connect propositions or similar parts of propositions; as, "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together." — Burke. Here the first and connects two propositions; the second and conuccts two logical subjects,... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - 1875 - 968 str.
...hare no sub • in in in 1 existence, are in truth every thing and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire...station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America with the old warning of the Church, Sursum forda .'*" We ought to elevate... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1874 - 454 str.
...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 ure conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our station and ourselves,... | |
 | Lexington (Mass.) - 1875 - 198 str.
...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... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1875 - 380 str.
...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 We ought to elevate our thoughts to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has... | |
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. 
