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She was often deliberately rude to the very people toward whom her mother was servile. Her strange friendship with Angie Hatton, the lovely and millioned, was the one thing in Elizabeth's life of which her Machiavellian mother approved. "Betty, you practically stuck out your tongue at Mr. Oakley!"
Speech by Robespierre, Thermidor 8, year II... ". Machiavellian designs against the small fund-holders of the State.. .. A contemptible financial system, wasteful, irritating, devouring, absolutely independent of your supreme oversight.... Anti-revolution exists in the financial department.... Who are its head administrators? Lindet says that he had signed twenty thousand papers.
He had taken a mortal dislike to Riccabocca: he was very much frightened by him, and the spectacles, the pipe, the cloak, the long hair, and the red umbrella; and said so sturdily, in reply to every overture, "Please, sir, I'd rather not; I'd rather stay along with Mother," that Riccabocca was forced to suspend all further experiments in his Machiavellian diplomacy.
I feel, though I admit with no grounds to speak of, that I might have been a great success in that most interesting profession. One never knows, and by putting my foot in it very conscientiously all round, I might have earned for myself a reputation of Machiavellian cunning! What do you think I met at dinner last night? A Travelling Radical Member of Parliament!
There was about the count, as he thus spoke, so much of that personal dignity which, whether natural or artificial, imposes for the moment upon human judgment, a dignity so supported by the singular advantages of his superb stature, his handsome countenance, his patrician air, that the duke, moved by his good heart, extended his hand to the perfidious kinsman, and forgot all the Machiavellian wisdom which should have told him how little a man of the count's hardened profligacy was likely to be influenced by any purer motives, whether to frank confession or to manly repentance.
And in these many difficult tasks, which had become much more difficult even than in the ’seventies or ’eighties, Bülow was as little hampered as his predecessor by any moral principles or scruples. He proved even more Machiavellian than his predecessor, adhering as steadfastly to the same implacable realism.
Blount claims that the Filipinos hoped that the Treaty of Paris would leave their country to them as it left Cuba to the Cubans, and adds that having helped us take the city of Manila, they "felt that they had been 'given the double cross," "believed that the Americans had been guilty of a duplicity rankly Machiavellian, and that was the cause of the war."
With all my cousin's marvellous beauty, her rarest charm lay in her gracious manner, her unobtrusive vivacity, and her quaint combination of Sarah's Machiavellian wisdom with the intense femininity of Eve.
She was absorbed in Machiavellian strategy, how to realize a hope that had been formed that very afternoon. "What are you both thinking of, sitting there so quietly?" said the Baron, stooping over them and kissing first his wife and then his child. "About nothing," said the wife, with the most innocent of smiles. "Oh! I am thinking," said Jacqueline, "of many things.
Admire that artful turn in the parson's eloquence! -it was worthy of Riccabocca himself. Indeed, Mr. Dale had profited much by his companionship with that Machiavellian intellect. "A marriage, yes; but Frank has only just got into coattails!" "I did not allude to Frank, but to your cousin Jemima!"
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