He wanted to enter upon a political career, so he fawned on the Queen's favorite; the favorite took an interest in him, gave him the rank of minister, and a seat at the council board.
If Finot should enter on a political career, his uncle would be his secretary, and receive all the contributions levied in his department on big affairs.
The most celebrated and the cleverest among them was Eugene Rastignac, who entered, with de Marsay's help, upon a political career, in which he has since distinguished himself.
The inheritance of a large fortune has perhaps in some degree hindered Mr. Phelps's success in a political career; but it has not robbed him of manly ambition, or lowered his estimate of a worthy and honorable life.
He at once entered upon a political career, which in a State so closely divided as Connecticut involves labor and persistence.
He sacrificed to the prosecution of his task a political career, House of Commons fame, the allurements of society.
When he left his dungeon he retired to a farm near San Casciano, and faced the fact that his political career was at an end.
Thus distinguished, and justifiably conscious of his great powers, Macaulay began to aspire to a political career.
We have no positive information about Tacitus' family, but his education, political career, and marriage into a distinguished house, prove that he belonged to a family of station.
New teachers, known as Sophists, who professed to be able to train men for a political career, [5] began to offer a more practical course designed to prepare boys for the newer type of state service.
I've told the dad, and I'll tell you, that I will not have my political career ruined by any baronetcy.
Dad, I hope you won't die just yet--it would ruin my political career.
During his absence Mrs. Joe had not failed to call Mr. Hacket in consultation, and the adviser had reiterated the old counsel that the first step in a political career was "to get around and get acquainted.
Believe me, your pleasant dream of a political career for me is hopeless.
Aside from the obstacle of great wealth, he was as eligible as another for usefulness and such laurels as come to those who honorably pursue a political career.
I think she would like a political career, and of course her only way of obtaining a career of any kind is to marry one.
The light that Corinna had kindled illumined not a political career, but the small vivid image of Patty.
Isn't it the first step upward in a political career?
But it is a difficult thing to write a good article upon Melbourne, one which shall delineate his character with impartiality and discrimination, and describe fairly and truly his political career.
You know that, of course, and I didn't doubt your judgment, but intellectual distinction doesn't always go together with the qualities necessary to a political career.
For a long time I seriously doubted whether I was fit for a political career.
How does that affect my chances in a political career, I wonder?
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