 | George Bancroft - 1884 - 484 Seiten
...these ruling and master principles are in truth everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire...minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to... | |
 | sir Richard Claverhouse Jebb - 1885 - 456 Seiten
...your army would be a base rabble, and your navy nothing but rotten timber. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom : and a great empire...minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our situation and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 624 Seiten
...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 3 go ill together. If we are4 conscious of our situation, and glow with 1 Land-tax. This tax was formerly... | |
 | William Swinton - 1885 - 620 Seiten
...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 3 go ill together. If we are4 conscious of our situation, and glow with 1 Land-tax. This tax was formerly... | |
 | George Bancroft - 1886 - 486 Seiten
...these ruling and master principles are in truth everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire...minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to... | |
 | Caroline Matilda Kirkland - 1866 - 402 Seiten
...which your army would be a base rabble and your navy nothing but rotten timber. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire...minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to... | |
 | David Mabelan - 1886 - 154 Seiten
...to succeed than to fail, more likely to cement than to dissolve the Union. " Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great Empire and little minds go ill together." LONDON: PBISTKD BY JS VIRTUE AND CO., LIMITED, CITY ROAD. Hid 53CS E The borrower must return this... | |
 | Martha Gellhorn - 1988 - 354 Seiten
...fear of a mouse. I prefer Edmund Burke to any panic speeches from Washington: "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together." Rule by Terror July 1983 President Reagan once described the Vietnam catastrophe as "that noble cause."... | |
 | Martha Gellhorn - 1988 - 354 Seiten
...prefer Edmund Burke to any panic speeches from Washington: "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom die truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together." Tferrop July 1983 President Reagan once described the Vietnam catastrophe as "that noble cause." Recently... | |
 | Robert Andrews - 1989 - 414 Seiten
...food to the people will win. Lech Walesa (b. 1943) Polish Solidarity leader Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. Edmund Burke (1729-1797) Irish philosopher, statesman Politics is the diversion of trivial men who,... | |
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. 
