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" Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. "
Select Speeches, Forensick and Parliamentary: With Prefatory Remarks - Page 166
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 3-4

Robert Chambers - American literature - 1830 - 844 pages
...minutest mt-mbtT. Matrimnimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, und a great empire and le minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our situation and glow with Л to fill our places as becomes our station and ourselves, we ou.^lit to auspicate all r public proceedings...
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Hansard's Parliamentary Debates

Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1831 - 762 pages
...Burke's second speech on North America : " Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom : a great empire and little minds go ill together. If...becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate our proceedings respecting America, with the old warning of the Church ' Sursum Cortce.' Weought to...
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The works of ... Edmund Burke, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 740 pages
...fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these rulingand master principles, which, in the opinion of such men...conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our publick proceedings on America,...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 744 pages
...fit to turn a wheel in the machine. But to men truly initiated and rightly taught, these rulingand master principles, which, in the opinion of such men...conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our places as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our publick proceedings on America,...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1834 - 648 pages
...mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth every thing, and all in all. Magnanimity in politic« e nil our places ал becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings...
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The History of England, Volume 2

Thomas Smart Hughes - Great Britain - 1835 - 364 pages
...contribute in moderation ; nor ought she to be permitted to exhaust herself : magnanimity iu politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire...with zeal to fill our place as becomes our station, we ought to elevate our minds to the greatness of that trust to which the order of Providence has called...
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The Works of Edmund Burke: With a Memoir, Volume 1

Edmund Burke - English literature - 1835 - 652 pages
...mentioned, have no substantial existence, are in truth every thing, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics ical illation. We Englishmen stop very short of the...principles upon which we support any given part of places as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings on America,...
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The Elocutionist: Consisting of Declamations and Readings in Prose and ...

Jonathan Barber - Oratory - 1836 - 404 pages
...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 go ill together. Let us get an American revenue as we have got an American empire. English privileges have made it all...
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The Works of the Right Hon. Edmund Burke: With a Biographical and ..., Volume 1

Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1837 - 744 pages
...and rightly taught, these rulingand master principles, which, in the opinion of such men as I nave `* places as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our publick proceedings on America,...
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The Museum of Foreign Literature, Science, and Art, Volume 34

Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - American periodicals - 1838 - 604 pages
..."these ruling and master principles are in truth every thing, and all in all." "Magnanimity in polities is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire...station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate all our public proceedings in America with the old warning of the church, Sursum corda! We ought to elevate...
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