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None of our statesmen had the Latin tact and the histrionic gifts needful to fathom his guile, to arouse the public opinion of Europe against him, or to expose his double-dealing. But Pitt was unfortunate above all of them. It was his fate to begin his career in an age of mediocrities and to finish it in an almost single combat with the giant. He was no match for Napoleon.
Washington learned of this criticism in a letter from Lee to Reed, which was opened at head-quarters on the supposition that it was on army matters, and "with no idea of its being a private letter, much less the tendency of the correspondence," as Washington explained in a letter to Reed, which had not a word of reproach for the double-dealing that must have cut the General keenly, coming as it did at a moment of misfortune and discouragement.
Posa was made to gain the king's confidence, to become seemingly omnipotent, and in the pride of his imagined strength to enter upon that desperate game of intrigue and double-dealing which involves himself and his cause and his helpless friend, Don Carlos, in final disaster. Thus St.
He belonged to the old, free-handed, speech-making type of American statesmen, and, with his florid good looks, his great stature, his loud, resonant, challenging voice, and his picturesque reputation for highly successful double-dealing, he was one of the most talked-of men in the State, despite his advanced years.
McVickar; that was common talk on the division. But until yesterday I didn't know for certain that the trouble had been patched up; in fact, I had my own reasons for believing that it hadn't been patched up." "And you told me there was an alliance in order that I might believe that my father would be involved in an exposure of the railroad's double-dealing with the public?" "Just that.
Except where the rates are fixed by law, as in posting, the natives pay much less; and here is an instance of double-dealing which does not harmonise with the renowned honesty of the Norwegians. At the Belle-Vue, we were furnished with three very meagre meals a day, at the rate of two dollars and a half.
"But it's my impression that for sheer mischief and double-dealing he could knock spots off any other human being on this earth." "Oh, if that's all you know about him," said Toby, "you've never even met him never once." "Have you?" questioned Jake abruptly. She coloured up to the soft fair hair that clustered about her blue-veined temples, and turned from him with an odd little indrawn breath.
That he's a double-dealing scoundrel? That Brodie is worse? That neither is hardly the sort for a girl to trust herself to in a place like this?" "I am not given much choice," Gloria informed him with high insolence. "That's a fact," he conceded with a grunt.
I never knew until within the past two days what all this chicanery and double-dealing might be doing to me, but now I do know." "Will it bear telling?" she asked quietly. "I think not to you," he returned, matching her low tone. "Let it be enough to say that I am no longer the man I was when I came out here.
Could anything be more beautiful or noble in public life, where jealousy, and selfishness and double-dealing appear to rule the hour? One or two other illustrations must suffice us. The captain of a ship was absent from it one day, being on board another vessel.
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