 | Nicholas Deakin - 2000 - 9 страници
...invigorates, vivifies every part of the empire, even down to the minutest member. "... Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. . . ." BURKE, 1775. 60 BUT is this society of ours purchased at the expense of a slave population scattered... | |
 | German historical institute (Washington, D.C.). - 2002 - 310 страници
...politics.76 76 1n variation of Burkes remark in On Conciliation with America (1775), 62: "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together." PART FlVE Transatlantic History and American Exceptionalism 11 Transatlantic History as National History?... | |
 | Samuel B. Griffith - 2002 - 725 страници
...tyranny in every tainted breeze." Burke closed his three-hour speech with an urgent appeal: "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great Empire and little minds go ill together."12 He called upon his colleagues to elevate their minds "to the greatness of that trust to... | |
 | Robert Cowley, Antony Beevor - 2004 - 298 страници
...Englishman is the unfittest person on earth to argue another Englishman into slavery. . . . Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great Empire and little minds go ill together." A few weeks later, musket fire was echoing through eastern Massachusetts — but suppose it never did?... | |
 | Irwin Abrams - 2005 - 165 страници
...generous hearing. Critics say that concessions are a sign of weakness. Burke, however says, "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together." Prophetic words when we think of the history of the British Empire. And we Unionists are the inheritors... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1963 - 585 страници
...have mentioned have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a...minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our place as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 2006 - 429 страници
...we may enjoy others; and we choose rather to be happy citizens than subtle disputants." "Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together." Here you have the whole spirit of the man, and in part a view of his eminently practical system of... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 2008 - 600 страници
...have mentioned have no substantial existence, are in truth everything, and all in all. Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom ; and...minds go ill together. If we are conscious of our situation, and glow with zeal to fill our place as becomes our station and ourselves, we ought to auspicate... | |
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Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together. 
