 | Sir Henry William Lucy - 1908 - 436 páginas
...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 at... | |
 | Sir Henry William Lucy - 1908 - 444 páginas
...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 at... | |
 | William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - 1910 - 468 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... | |
 | 1915 - 884 páginas
...this incident: '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... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1915 - 266 páginas
...this incident : 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... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1915 - 272 páginas
...this incident : 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... | |
 | Paul Elmer More - 1915 - 266 páginas
...this incident: 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... | |
 | Lucien Wolf - 1921 - 398 páginas
...young Disraeli in 1830, and was with him at Malta. " To govern men," writes Dizzy to his father, " you must either excel them in their accomplishments or despise them. Clay does one, I do the other." The Tory press was, of course, quick to perceive Goderich's embarrassment, and made all the capital... | |
 | 1922 - 1578 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 (1796-1858), prison chaplain, wos the fifth son of... | |
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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... 
