But there was never a parallel large-mindedness or generosity of spirit.

Anyone can learn the ins and outs of a balance sheet, but to truly exercise the responsibility of publisher is a question of character - meaning an integrity of personality, a large-mindedness, along with a helmsman's instinct for restraint or boldness.

Through their scholarship and large-mindedness, Mr. Kurland and Mr. Lerner have laid before us a rich legacy of thought that will help us understand the origins, the historic "meaning" in the fullest senses, of our basic charter.

"But I am so cold, or devoid of gratitude, or so something, that even this generosity hasn't made me love him, or repent, or want to stay with him as his wife; although I do feel I like his large-mindedness, and respect him more than ever."

Kipling left India for good in 1889 and, in his years living in the United States and England, he quickly became Kiplingesque, the most visible exponent of muscular, nationalistic literary rhapsody, tempered by a kind of patronizing large-mindedness: "You're a better man than I am Gunga Din."