 | 1889 - 864 páginas
...a fixed purpose about the glittering youth. To govern men [he writes in another letter from Malta] you must either excel them in their accomplishments...popular. Affectation tells here even better than wit. Then there follows a story, interesting as showing how little it took to amuse Malta : — Yesterday... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1885 - 176 páginas
...branches of palm. Here the younkers do nothing but play rackets, billiards, and cards, race and smoke. To govern men, you must either excel them in their...popular. Affectation tells here even better than wit. Yesterday, at the racket court, sitting in the gallery among strangers, the ball entered, and lightly... | |
 | 1885 - 850 páginas
...announces quite authoritatively to the old gentleman his philosophy of life: "To govern men," he says, "you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them. Clay does one, and 1 do the other ; and we are both equally popular. Affectation tells here even better than wit.... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - 1887 - 272 páginas
...branches of palm. Here the younkers do nothing but play rackets, billiards, and cards, race and smoke. To govern men, you must either excel them in their...popular. Affectation tells here even better than wit. Yesterday, at the racket court, sitting in the gallery among strangers, the ball entered, and lightly... | |
 | Leslie Stephen - 1887 - 512 páginas
...splendid adventure,' and, after chronicling his various triumphs, appends the characteristic reflection : 'To govern men you must either excel them in their...I do the other, and we are both equally popular.' [Information privately supplied.] JK CLAY, JOHN (1790-1858), prison chaplain, was the fifth son of... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1889 - 584 páginas
...or despise them ' — a maxim upon which he seems to have acted1 throughout his career ; and adds, ' Clay does one, I do the other, and we are both equally...popular. Affectation tells here even better than wit.' Of ' affectation,' indeed, he had a large stock. We have heard it said that the cards, which he left... | |
 | 1889 - 860 páginas
...or despise them " — a maxim upon which he seems to have acted throughout his career; and adds : " Clay does one, I do the other, and we are both equally...popular. Affectation tells here even better than wit." Of "affectation," indeed, he had a large stock. We have heard it said that the cards, which he left... | |
 | Anna Lydia Ward - 1889 - 720 páginas
...irresponsible frivolity. 2139 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : Speech, Mansion House, Nov. 9, 1878. To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them. 2140 Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) : Home Letters. Letter vii. Government has been a fossil : it... | |
 | 1889 - 620 páginas
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 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - 1907 - 794 páginas
...buffooncries,' he writes, ' I need not add that I continue tolerably well.' Again from Malta he writes : ' To govern men you must either excel them in their...popular. Affectation tells here even better than wit. Yesterday, at the racket-court, sitting in the gallery among the strangers, the ball entered and lightly... | |
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To govern men, you must either excel them in their accomplishments, or despise them. Clay does one, I do the other, and we are both equally popular. Affectation tells here even better than wit. Yesterday, at the racket court, sitting in the gallery among... 
