The great statesman was connected with Lord George, for he married the sister of the Duke of Portland.
This was the last day that this philosophical statesman took his seat in the house of commons.
The character of Fox was powerfully vindicated by Lord Howick, who endeavoured to prove that the deceasedstatesman was wholly free from any imputation on his integrity or his political wisdom.
Mr. Cobden's motion was in itself impracticable, his statistics partial, and his tone personal and unjust to the statesman by whom our foreign relations had been conducted.
The opinions and measures of the great statesman will long be a subject of discussion, not only in England, but in other nations.
With those words the career and credit of the duke as a statesman may be said to have closed.
Theories, he said, which did not connect men with measures, were not theories for this world: they were chimeras with which a recluse might divert his fancy, but they were not principles en which a statesman would found his system.
A statesmanwho pursues, or who favors, aggressive, domineering policy in foreign affairs.
Slowly the statesman and sure, guiding his feet by the stars.
Upon this point of security, the eye of the true statesman is fixed.
While he must always be regarded first as a statesman of one of the highest types, he had other interests than those directly suggested by his office, and in one of these, at least, he affords an interesting and profitable study.
I don't think you quite understand," he once said to her, "the fearful responsibility that will rest upon the Balkan statesman who decides the policy of his country in this crisis.
If you only had a statesman to see that there lies the key to certain victory in this war.
The only statesmen in Europe nowadays are to be found in the Balkans, because since every man here is a politician it requires a statesman to rise above the ruck.
Willingly would we pass over his public life altogether; for he was as little of a great statesman as of a great commander.
Surely," he says in his defence of Plancius, "it is no mark of inconsistency in a statesman to determine his judgment and to steer his course by the state of the political weather.
The event accomplished the prediction; the statesman and the man of the world, the accomplished and exemplary and amiable scholar, were put aside to make way for the Saint.
Besides, he considered it to be actually the duty of a statesman to accommodate theoretical principle to the exigencies of existing circumstances.
These changes seem to me to have dawned gradually, though quickly, upon the powerful mind of the conqueror, and to have transformed him from a young knight-errant in search of fame into a statesman facing an enormous responsibility.
Nobody regarded the Prime Minister as responsible for the scandal of his relatives, but a bad idea of his family came into existence, and the influence of the statesmanwas diminished.
She had long been the widow of a statesman whose name she bore with dignity.
They were both friends and helpers to the great statesman Cavour in all his labors for the reconstruction of Italy, and one of the deepest interests of their lives was that reconstruction.
The success of popular self-government in these thriving communities is reacting on political opinion at home with a force that no statesman neglects, and that is every day increasing.
The testimony of a sagacious and experienced statesmanon this subject is decisive: "To the influence of the American Union must be added that of the British colonies.
My first presidential vote was given for the first presidential candidate of the Republican party, and I have supported with enthusiasm every successor of Fremont, including that matchless statesman who claimed our suffrages in 1884.
Monday, August 6, General Harrison received a visit from one hundred members of the Kansas City Blaine Club, accompanied by many ladies, en route to New York to welcome the Maine statesman on his return from Europe.
The day when a legislator meant a statesman was done with; it meant merely a man like other men, to be juggled with by shrewder politicians or to be tricked by more dishonest ones.
There's a statesman that came a century too late," he remarked to Tom Bassett.
McKee, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Clay, oldest son of the great statesman Henry Clay, and Adjutant Vaughn.
In the state legislature and in the United States Congress, where he served one term each, he, from the first, was recognized as a student and a statesman surpassed by none.
If at this moment he demands an extension of the suffrage eagerly and even violently, the wise statesman will give at once, gracefully and generously, what the Englishman will certainly obtain one day, if he has set his mind upon it.
William was the ablest statesman in Europe, and had been trained in the tactics of confederacies from his cradle.
A Change in the progress of Events foreshadowed--Exercise of Wits--The Statesman proves too much for the Lawyer.
Then he mentioned another name, a statesman who pursued a policy of terrorism and oppression, enriched himself by barbarous cruelty exercised in colonial possessions, and was famous for the calculated libertinism of his private life.
He came among us, indeed, like a statesman rather than like a teacher.
We hold, indeed, as a general rule, that no man born or bred in Scotland can be a great orator, unless he is a mere quack; or a great statesman unless he turns plain knave.
At least in a free country the statesman knows that he has got to work through stupid people, with their consent, and with regard to the measure of their capacities.
He never appears to have had a single glimpse of the truth that the essential business of the statesman is to be always moving from the past to the future without ever letting the bridge between them break down.
The period produced in Britain no imperialist statesman of the first rank, nor did imperial questions play a leading part in the deliberations of parliament.
No doubt it is possible to imagine a more tactful man than George Grenville, a more far-seeing and courageous statesman than Lord North, a less obstinate prince than George III.
The first statesman of the country had just been condemned and executed on a narrative, without indictment of any specified crime.
The statesman then came forward and said in a loud, firm voice to the people: "Men, do not believe that I am a traitor to the country.
He did not pause to reflect whether the arm which had been strong enough to smite to nothingness the venerable statesman in the plenitude of his power would be too weak to repel the attack of an obscure and disarmed partisan.
State allegories present small fascinations to any but the statesman glorified; but Dr.
Whatever else a statesman may communicate to his son, we may be sure that he does not confide to him such appalling guilt as this.
To the Elizabethan statesman therefore the missionary priests who flocked over from the continent constituted the gravest danger for the State as well as for the Church.
This illustrious orator and statesman may now be regarded as having closed his public career.
