 But if we make ourselves too little for the sphere of our duty, if, on the contrary, we do not stretch and expand our minds to the compass of their object, be well assured that everything about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length our concerns...  Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 6201901Full view - About this book
 | Great Britain. Parliament - Great Britain - 1785 - 796 pages
...dot (Irstch and expand our minds to the compafs of their object, be well alTurcd, that every thing about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length our concerns are fhrun.lt to the dimenfions of our minds. It is not a predilection to mean, fordid, home-bred cares,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Great Britain - 1792 - 676 pages
...not ftretch and expand our minds to the compafs of their object, be well affured, that every thing about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length our concerns are fhrunk to the dimenfions of our minds. It is not a predilection to mean, fordid, home-bred cares, that... | |
 | John Wilde - France - 1793 - 688 pages
...ftretch " and expand our minds to the compafs of their " object, be well aflhred, that every thing about " us will dwindle by degrees, until at length our " concerns are fhrunk to the dimenfions of our " minds. It is not a predilection to mean, for" did, home-bred cares,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - France - 1803 - 464 pages
...do notftretch and expand our minds to the compafs of their object, be well affured, that every thing about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length our concerns are fhrunk to the dimenfions of our minds. It is not a predilection to mean, fordid, home-bred cares, that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - English literature - 1803 - 474 pages
...notftretch arid expand our minds to the compafs of their object, be well affured, that every thing about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length our concerns are fhrunk to the dimenfions of our minds. It is not a predilection to mean, fordid, home-bred cares, that... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1804 - 244 pages
...not stretch and expand our minds to the compass of their object, be well assured, that every thing about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length...cares, that will avert the consequences of a false estimation of our interest, or prevent the shameful dilapidation into which a great empire must fall,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - Political science - 1804 - 228 pages
...not stretch and expand our minds to the compass of their object, be well assured, that every thing about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length...cares, that will avert the consequences of a false estimation of our interest, or 79 prevent the shameful dilapidation into which a great empire must... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 458 pages
...not stretch and expand our minds to the compass of their object, be well assured, that every thing about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length...cares, that will avert the consequences of a false estimation of our interest, or prevent the shameful dilapidation into which a great empire must fall,... | |
 | Nathaniel Chapman - Great Britain - 1807 - 464 pages
...not stretch and expand our minds to the compass of their object, be well assured, that every thing about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length...cares, that will avert the consequences of a false estimation of our interest, or prevent the shameful dilapidation into which a great empire must fall,... | |
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1815 - 746 pages
...not stretch and expand our minds to the compass of their object, be well assured, that every thing about us will dwindle by degrees, until at length...cares, that will avert the consequences of a false estimation of our interest, or prevent the shameful dilapidation into which a great empire must fall,... | |
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