 | 1843 - 1266 pages
...meritoriously administered : Whilst all its instruments from first to last, The tools of slate for sen-ice high or low, Were chosen for their aptness to those ends Which virtue meditates. " Doubtless a seat in the cabinet, and Mr. Macaulay 's personal success in life, must have operated... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1863 - 472 pages
...of merit, the sole means And broad highway to power, that ever then Was meritoriously administered, Whilst all its instruments from first to last, The tools of state for sen,ice high or low, Were chosen for their aptness to those ends, Which virtue meditates. To shake... | |
 | william harrison ainsworth - 1865 - 516 pages
...merit, the sole means And broad highway to power, that ever then Was meritoriously administered, While all its instruments from first to last, The tools...chosen for their aptness to those ends Which virtue meditates.f Fielding gives us a chapter on Matters Political, in his " Amelia," in which the doctor,... | |
 | 1865 - 528 pages
...then Was meritoriously administered, While all its instruments from first to last, The tools of stale for service high or low, Were chosen for their aptness to those ends Which virtue meditates.f Fielding gives us a chapter on Matters Political, in his " Amelia," in which the doctor,... | |
 | 1843 - 780 pages
...of merit, the sole means And broad highway to power, that ever then Was meritoriously administered : Whilst all its instruments from first to last, The...their aptness to those ends Which virtue meditates." Doubtless a scat in the cabinet, and Mr. Macaulay's great personal success in life, must have operated... | |
 | Francis Jacox - 1871 - 358 pages
...merit, the sole means And broad highway to power, that ever then Was meritoriously administered, While all its instruments from first to last, The tools...their aptness to those ends Which virtue meditates. Fielding gives us, in one of his fictions, a chapter on Matters Political, in which the doctor, discussing... | |
 | John Lewis Peyton - 1873 - 416 pages
...sole means And broad highway to power that ever then Was meritoriously administer'd, Whilst all the instruments from first to last, The tools of state...service high or low, Were chosen for their aptness to the ends Which virtue meditates." At the President's dinner our father was present, being at the tune... | |
 | John Lewis Peyton - United States - 1873 - 416 pages
...sole means And broad highway to power that ever then Was meritoriously administer'd, Whilst all the instruments from first to last, The tools of state...service high or low, Were chosen for their aptness to the ends Which virtue meditates." At the President's dinner our father was present, being at the tune... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - Flanders - 1876 - 376 pages
...of merit, the sole means And broad highway to power, that ever then Was meritoriously adtninister'd, Whilst all its instruments from first to last, The tools of state for service high or low, AVere chosen for their aptness to those ends Which virtue meditates. To shake the ground Deep-founded... | |
 | Sir Henry Taylor - English literature - 1877 - 494 pages
...merit, trie sole means And broad highway to power, that ever then Was meritoriously administer1 d, Whilst all its instruments from first to last, The...now, I ask, Where is there on God's earth that polity A treason against Nature to uphold ? Whom may we now call free ? whom great ? whom wise ? Whom innocent... | |
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Ordered the common weal ; where great men grew Up to their natural eminence, and none Saving the wise, just, eloquent, were great ; Where power was of God's gift, to whom he gave Supremacy of merit, the sole means And broad highway to power, that ever... 
