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He was himself preëminently a doer of deeds, and not a critic or a phrase-maker, and we can read very distinctly in the extracts which have been brought together in this chapter what he thought on party and public questions. He was opposed to the party which had resisted all the great measures of his administration from the foundation of the government of the United States.
"Listen to me," said Jacques de Laubardemont, "and answer at once. I am not a phrase-maker, like my father. I bear in mind that you have done me some good offices; and lately again, you have been useful to me, as you always are, without knowing it, for I have somewhat repaired my fortune in your little insurrections. If you will, I can render you an important service; I command a few brave men."
"Why, a phrase-maker is a person who recklessly launches a saying, winged by wit, and of superior brevity and distinctness, but not necessarily true a saying which flies direct to the mind, and, being of a cutting nature, carves an indelible impression there," said Mrs. Kilroy "an impression which numbs the intellect and prevents us reasoning for ourselves.
But I don't care to deceive any one." "As you please, Monsieur le Ministre, as you please," answered Warcolier, in a mocking and gentle tone. Sulpice did not like this man. He was a phrase-maker. He had a vague feeling that this Warcolier who in public affected strictly severe principles was privately undermining him and that he yielded to favors in order to win support.
'The thumb-mark of his Maker was wet in the clay of him. Man, it made a quiver go down my spine." "Oh, Bauldy has been a kenned phrase-maker for the last forty year," said Tarmillan. "But every other Scots peasant has the gift. To hear Englishmen talk, you would think Carlyle was unique for the word that sends the picture home they give the man the credit of his race.
But with regard to Imperial questions, to our great and vital interests in distant parts of the earth, there is necessarily neither the same amount of personal knowledge on the part of the electorate, nor do the consequences of a mistaken policy recoil so directly and so unmistakably upon them. These subjects, therefore, are the happy hunting-ground of the visionary and the phrase-maker.
I do not in the least know what she is, but I can see already what she will become if her friends are not careful; and that is a phrase-maker. "Colonel Colquhoun is likely to be a greater favourite here than his wife. Ladies say he is 'very nice! 'so genial, and 'a thorough Irishman! whatever they mean by that. He does affect both brogue and blarney when he thinks proper.
"Yes," said Sir George; "but on the other hand, one who is scrupulous would be a philanthropist of extraordinary power." "Now, isn't that like his craft and subtlety, Evadne?" said Mrs. Kilroy to Lady Galbraith. "He has been gradually working up to that in order to make Mrs. Maclure suppose I intended to pay him a compliment when I called him a phrase-maker."
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