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He himself often resembled Lady Bolingbroke's lively description of Pope; that 'he was un politique aux choux et aux raves. . He would say, 'I dine to-day in Grosvenor-square; this might be with a Duke : or, perhaps, 'I dine to-day at the other end of the town: or, 'A gentleman of great eminence called on me yesterday. He loved thus to keep things floating in conjecture: Omne ignotum pro magnifico est. . I believe I ventured to dissipate the cloud, to unveil the mystery, more freely and frequently than any of his friends.
"Mon Dieu!" he exclaimed, with a snap of his fingers "Ze art is dead in Angleterre, zere is no musique, ze poesie. Zis is ze land of ze A-penny journal ze musique, ze poesie, ze science, ze politique, ze sentiment, one A-penny! Bah! Ca, ce, n'est pas possible! zis pauvre pays is kill avec ze vulgarite of ze cheap!
It fell to Dale to enforce the regulations known as "Lawes and Orders, dyvine, politique, and martiall for the Colonye of Virginia" not English civil law simply, but laws "chiefly extracted out of the Lawes for governing the army in the Low Countreys."
But in an oriental despotism there are other forces at work besides those of la haute politique, and Ibrahim had one deadly enemy who was sworn to compass his destruction. The Sultana Roxalana was the light of the harem of the Grand Turk.
He had all the secret correspondence burnt, except one piece, which was called Conjectures raisonnées sur la Situation actuelle de la France dans le Système Politique de l'Europe: a work executed by M. Favier, under the direction of Count Broglie. A single copy of this was said to have been found in the cabinet of Louis the Sixteenth.
Longer accounts: Cambridge Modern History, Vol. V , ch. xii, xx, xxi, and Vol. VI , ch. vii- ix, xx; Histoire generale, Vol. V, ch. xix, Vol. VI, ch. xvi, and Vol. VII, ch. iv, v; Emile Bourgeois, Manuel historique de politique etrangere, 4th ed., Vol. I , ch. vi, xii, valuable for international relations of the Germanies; Bernhard Erdmannsdoerffer, Deutsche Geschichte, 1648-1740, 2 vols.
He had seen dissension break out among his enemies; even the Pope, Sixtus, had shown him some favour, and the Politique nobles were certainly not going against him. Early in 1590 Henri had secured Anjou, Maine, and Normandy, and in March defeated Mayenne, in a great pitched battle at Ivry, not far from Dreux. The Leaguers fell back in consternation to Paris.
A l'occasion de l'arrivée du Président de la République Français le Ministre des Affaires Etrangères avait préparé un court exposé de la situation politique actuelle,
Their anxiety for enriching themselves, their vanity, the authority which they exercised over the poor Indians, are the motives which actuate them, and not the love of God or the propagating of the faith." Essai Politique. This is the title of this order of friars. The War of the Secret Political Societies of Mexico. The Scotch and the York Free-Masons. Anti-Masons.
Here I find my Lord very politique; for he tells me, that he discerns they design to set up Lawson as much as they can and that he do counterplot them by setting him up higher still; by which they will find themselves spoiled of their design, and at last grow jealous of Lawson. Talbot, and others, had complained to my Lord, of Coventry, and would have him out.
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