She is also, as Your Highness knoweth, a great politic, which I never was nor could be, and hath set me to ask Your Highness some questions bearing on great affairs.
The Romans, being advertised of these things, thought it necessary no longer to choose their commanders by favor or solicitation, but of their own motion to select a general of wisdom and capacity for the management of great affairs.
Hence his solidity and depth of character showed itself gradually, more and more to those with whom he was concerned, and claimed, as it were, employment in great affairs, and places of public command.
For Aratus was not only useful to him in the management of great affairs, but singularly agreeable also as the private companion of a king in his recreations.
In great affairs he knew how to spare himself the details to which others could attend as well as he, and yet he was in no wise a despiser of small things.
He gave himself up to great affairs, he was hardly human, and he shunned the graces, the wit, and all the salt of life, and passed them by on the other side.
Mr. Simpson was as particular in the minutiae of conduct as he was in great affairs.
Such self- righteous subtleties must be ignored in the conduct of great affairs.
But though he had all the air of assuming that they were perfectly well-read and highly experienced in great affairs, he yet managed to tell them very clearly what they did not and could not know.
The older men, who had borne the weight of great affairs, recognised the duty of forming the character of their juniors by precept and criticism.
Like Otho, who belonged to the same circle, he showed, as consul and in the government of Bithynia, that a man of pleasure could be equal to great affairs.
If they chose to dwell in a backwater out of touch with the current of great affairs, this was a matter to be deplored, but I did not feel strongly enough to resent it.
Not having studied law, he had been home for four years when I became a legal fledgling, and during the early days of my apprenticeship I was beholden to him for many "eye openers" concerning the conduct of great affairs.
She smiled in the darkness at his boyish fervour,--one of the aspects of the successful Ditmar, the Ditmar of great affairs, that appealed to her most strongly.
They were statesmen accustomed to the management of great affairs.
Misanthropy is not the temper which qualifies a man to act in great affairs, or to judge of them.
In India, while he was occupied by great affairs, in England, while wealth and rank had still the charm of novelty, he had borne up against his constitutional misery.
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