STATESMANSHIP STORM
If one has no better method of enticement to offer, the cordial agreement seems to us to be the best compromise.
Lhe Charivari. Vol. XV. No. 3. P. 4. (1846), referring to the ambassador of Morocco, then in Paris. </poem>
I have the courage of my opinions, but I have
not the temerity to give a political blank cheque to Lord Salisbury. Goschen. In Parliament, Feb. 19, 1884.
Spheres of influence.
Version of Earl Granville's phrase.
"Spheres of action," found in his letter to
Count MOnster, April 29, 1885. Hertslet's Map of Africa by Treaty. P. 596.
Trans. May 7, 1885. See also phrase used
in Convention between Great Britain and
France, Aug. 10, 1889, in same. P. 562.
Gli ambasciadori sono l'occhio e l'orecchio
degli stati.
Ambassadors are the eye and ear of states.
Guicciardini—Storia d'ltalia.
Learn to think continentally.
Alexander Hamilton. Paraphrase of his
words in a Speech to his American fellow
countrymen.
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all nations—entangling alliances with none.
Thos. Jefferson—First Inaugural Address.
March 4, 1801.
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LowELii—Biglow Papers. Mason and Slidett.
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| text = <poem>Statesman, yet friend to truth; of soul sincere,
In action faithful, and in honour clear;
Who broke no promise, serv'd no private end,
Who gain'd no title, and who lost no friend;
Ennobled by himself, by all approv'd,
And prais'd, unenvy'd, by the Muse he lov'd.
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| work = Epistle to Addison. L. 67.
Who would not praise Patricio's high desert,
His hand unstain'd, his uncorrupted heart,
His comprehensive head? all interests weigh'd,
All Europe sav'd, yet Britain not betray'd.
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It is well indeed for our land that we of this
generation have learned to think nationally.
Roosevelt—Builders of the State.
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| text = <poem>If you wish to preserve your secret wrap it
up in frankness.
Alexander Smith—Dreamihorp. On the Writing of Essays. •
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And lives to clutch the golden keys,
To mould a mighty state's decrees,
And shape the whisper of the throne.
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| work = In Memoriam. Pt. LXIII.
And statesmen at her council met
Who knew the seasons when to take
Occasion by the hand, and make
The bounds of freedom wider yet.
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| work = To the Queen. St. 8.
Why don't you show us a statesman who
can rise up to the emergency, and cave in the
emergency's head.
Artemus Ward—Things in New York.
Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a
situation?—Why quit our own to stand upon
foreign ground?—Why by interweaving our
destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of
European ambition, rivalship, interest, humour
or caprice?
Washington—Farewell Address. Sept. 17,
1796.
'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent
alliances, with any portion of the foreign world—
so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it.
Washington—Farewell Address. Sept. 17,
.
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| text = <poem>Tell the truth, and so puzzle and confound
your adversaries.
Wotton—Advice to a young diplomat.
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| text = <poem>Legatus est; vir bonus peregre missus ad mentiendem rei publioe causae.
An ambassador is an honest man sent to he
abroad for the commonwealth.
Wotton. In the autograph album of Christopher Fleckamore. (1604) Eight years
later Jasper Scioppius published it with
malicious intent. Wotton apologized, but
insisted on the double meaning of lie as
a jest. A leiger is an ambassador. So used
by Butler—Hudibras. Pt. II. III. 139.
Also by Fuller—Holy State. P. 306.
STORM
Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.
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| text = <poem>I have heard a greater storm in a boiling pot.
Athemsus—Deipnosophistw. VIII. 19. Dorian,
a flutist, ridiculing Timotheos, a zither
player, who imitated a storm at sea.
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| text = <poem>The earth is rocking, the skies are riven—
Jove in a passion, in god-like fashion,
Is breaking the crystal urns of heaven.
Robert Buchanan—Horatius Cogitandibus.
St. 16.
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James Butler, First Duke of Ormond, to the Earl of Arlington, Dec. 28, 1678. Ormond MSS. Commission New Series. Vol. IV. P. 292.
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