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Updated: May 17, 2025
Louis has made us familiar with the motives and attributes of the great French king. They are the two men of the thirteenth century whom we know most intimately. It is well that the two characters thus portrayed at length represent to us so much of what is best in the chivalry, loyalty, statecraft, and piety of the Middle Ages.
Richard had made him Earl of Yorkshire, and had invested him in 1196 with the country of Poitou, that he might learn war and statecraft in the same rude school in which Richard had first acquainted himself with arms and politics. Even now Otto was not more than seventeen years of age.
It will be remembered that the Third Napoleon the last of that strange dynasty raised himself to the Imperial throne made himself, indeed, the most powerful monarch in Europe by statecraft, and not by power of sword.
Bishop Adalberon, the accomplice and lover of the Queen, that bishop, expert in poisons, was your friend!" "He was my friend before his crime." "You repudiate his friendship, but you profit by his crime. That is high statecraft." "In what way, Blanche, have I profited by that odious crime? Does not the son of Lothaire reign to-day?
Every day they will become, in spite of themselves, more devoted to my government than they had foreseen." How simple and yet how subtle is this statecraft; simplicity of aim, with subtlety in the choice of means: this is the secret of his success.
Taken aback by her beauty and frankness, Napoleon had recourse to compliments about her dress. "Are we to talk about fashion, at such a time?" was her reply. Again she pleaded, and again he fell back on vapidities. Nevertheless, her appeals to his generosity seemed to be thawing his statecraft, when the entrance of that unlucky man, her husband, gave the conversation a colder tone.
Were no other proof forthcoming of Lorenzo's marvellous diplomatic genius than this one fact, that he checkmated the political schemes of Sixtus, and finally so neutralized his influence as to render him wellnigh impotent for evil-doing, such an achievement was sufficient to stamp him one of the greatest masters of statecraft Europe has known.
So oblivious was he, apparently, to everything but the question of statecraft which occupied him, that he did not even look up when the morning's session was adjourned and the lawmakers began to pass noisily out, until Truslow stretched an arm across the aisle and touched him upon the shoulder. "In a moment, Senator!" answered Alonzo in his deepest chest tones.
In the proud palaces of the Borgias, of the Orsinis, the Scaligers, the Borromeos, the art of poisoning was preserved among the last resorts of Machiavellian statecraft; and not only in palaces, but in streets of Italian cities, in solitary towers and dark recesses of the Apennines, were still to be found the lost children of science, skilful compounders of poisons, at once fatal and subtle in their operation, poisons which left not the least trace of their presence in the bodies of their victims, but put on the appearance of other and more natural causes of death.
When a vessel answers the starboard helm it means she turns to the right, and in order to check this movement the steersman must put the helm to larboard as the only way to keep a straight course he must hold out. Such is the case of statecraft in Vienna it is always carried out of the course of the Alliance.
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