 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1825 - 253 sider
...DXXII. POWER will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the etrongest heads. No man is .wise enough, nor good enough /to be trusted with unlimited power; for,...him, because he can no longer answer for himself. DXXIII. THERE are two things which ought to teach us to think but meanly of human glory; the very best... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1826
...DXXII. POWER will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the etrongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power; for,...qualifications he may have evinced to entitle him to'the possession of so dangerous a privilege, yet, when possessed, others can no longer answer for... | |
 | Caleb Charles Colton - 1832 - 514 sider
...old system must ever have two advantages over a new one ; it is established, and it is understood. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power; for whatever qualifications he may have evinced... | |
 | Watson Adams - 1834 - 298 sider
...he was in Heaven, but you have forgotten, that the moment he got into Hell, he set up for a tory." Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power; for whatever qualifications he may have evinced... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1836 - 522 sider
...old system must ever have two advantages over a new one ; it is established, and it is understood. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power; for whatever qualifications he may have evinced... | |
 | Charles Caleb Colton - 1836 - 494 sider
...old system must ever have two advantages over a new one ; it is established, and it is understood. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power; for whatever qualifications he may have evinced... | |
 | Alexander Campbell, Charles Louis Loos - 1852 - 734 sider
...am, as ever, in ths good hope, j tmr brother la the faith and patience of the gospel, SAMUEL CHURCH. POWER will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No •nan is wise enough, nor good enough, to be entrusted with unlimited power; for whatever qualifications... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 586 sider
...It is equally criminal in the governor, and the governed, to violate the laws.—Chinese maxim. 672. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power; for, whatever qualifications he may have evinced... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 588 sider
...It is equally criminal in the governor, and the governed, to violate the laws.—Chinese maxim. 672. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power; for, whatever qualifications he may have evinced... | |
 | Robert Potts - 1855 - 1050 sider
...It is equally criminal in the governor, and the governed, to violate the laws.—Chinese maxim. 672. Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough, to be trusted with unlimited power; for, whatever qualifications he may have evinced... | |
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Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough or good enough to be trusted with unlimited power ; for whatever qualifications he may have evinced to entitle him to the possession of so dangerous a privilege,... 
