The ingenious malice of their enemies had deprived them of the benefit of mutual comfort and advice, separated those illustrious exiles into distant provinces, and carefully selected the most inhospitable spots of a great empire.
To conceive the almost infinite detail of the annual and daily expense of the civil and military administration in every part of a great empire, would exceed the powers of the most vigorous imagination.
Were all nations to follow the liberal system of free exportation and free importation, the different states into which a great continent was divided, would so far resemble the different provinces of a great empire.
The sneaking arts of underling tradesman are thus erected into political maxims for the conduct of a great empire; for it is the most underling tradesmen only who make it a rule to employ chiefly their own customers.
Rules by Which a Great Empire May be Reduced to a Small One, ii.
One is his Edict by the King of Prussia and the other is his Rules by Which a Great Empire May be Reduced to a Small One.
It struck us that the habits of Paris had no resemblance to the finished virtues, or to the polished vice, and elegant, though not blameless, luxury, of the capital of a great empire.
If to such brute force of conquest as they had already abundantly shown they should add gifts for organisation and administration, there was no reason why all their possessions should not be welded again into a great empire.
Rules for reducing a Great Empire to a small one, presented to a late Minister, when he entered upon his Administration.
In the first place, gentlemen, you are to consider, that a great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.
The miraculous translation of this treasure is celebrated with much pomp by the monk Gunther, in whom it created more surprise and joy than the conquest of a great empire.
If Poland must succumb, I will act as becomes my station and responsibilities as the sovereign of a great empire, and I will do that which the wisdom and prudence of my mother shall dictate to her son.
May you live to see Austria expand into a great empire, and Germany rescued from the misrule of its legions of feeble princes!
Were I like you, the reigning sovereign of a great empire, I should really find no time to indulge in gossip and scandal.
Within the last few years we have had two wars with a great Empire, which we are told contains at least one-third of the whole human race.
Lunacy is always distressing, but sometimes it is dangerous, and when you get it manifested in the head of the State, and it has become the policy of a great Empire, it is about time when that should be ruthlessly put away.
The greatest literature of England came from her when she was a nation of the size of Belgium fighting a great Empire.
See Franklin's "Rules for Reducing a Great Empire to a Small One", in Works, iv.
The general policy was the same as that afterwards pursued by the colonies when they had become a great empire,—homogeneity, equal contributions to expenses, a preference for their own shipping, and protection to their own industries.
A great empire is like a cake, most easily diminished at the edges.
One, called "Rules for Reducing a Great Empire to a Small One," was an admirable satire on the conduct of the British government.
His Essay upon the true means of bringing a great Empire to be a small one was very pretty.
In my old age it appears to be thought the object of a statesman to turn a great empire into a small kingdom.
When I was young,' he once said to me, 'it was thought the mark of a wise statesman that he had turned a small kingdom into a great empire.
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