 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray IV, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1907 - 646 páginas
...buffooneries,' 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... | |
 | 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 - 592 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... | |
 | Donald Sultana - 1976 - 108 páginas
...that he had learned from the maxims, among others, of Rochefoucauld. 'To govern men', he declared, 'you must either excel them in their accomplishments...does one ; I do the other, and we are both equally popular.'43 Clay was more M Ibid, 62. 35 It is now the National Museum of Malta. 36 Home Letters, p.... | |
 | 1915 - 1026 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... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - 1907 - 630 páginas
...buffooneries,' 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... 
