Where there are large powers with little ambition (which will happen sometimes, though seldom) nature may be said to have fallen short of her purposes; for she has given the machinery without the vis motrix.


Ch. 19. p. 132 - The Statesman (1836)

Henry Taylor Quotes

Where there are large powers with little ambition (which will happen sometimes, though seldom) nature may be said to have fallen short of her...

Where there are large powers with little ambition (which will happen sometimes, though seldom) nature may be said to have fallen short of her...

Where there are large powers with little ambition (which will happen sometimes, though seldom) nature may be said to have fallen short of her...

Where there are large powers with little ambition (which will happen sometimes, though seldom) nature may be said to have fallen short of her...