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In an instant, all the sycophants who had lately been ready to lie for him, to forge for him, to pander for him, to poison for him, hasten to purchase the favor of his victorious enemies by accusing him.
I would not do him any injustice, but being in office he naturally sides with the ministry. He does not see which way the people are going. King George believes that he himself is chosen of God to rule us, and Lord North is ready to back him up. The people around the king are sycophants who are looking after their own personal advantage.
XXXVII. But since, as Simonides says, all larks must have crests, and all republics sycophants, so two of the popular leaders, Laphystius and Demaenetus, attacked Timoleon.
Under a section headed "Law," below, I will say something about the removal of entail, etc. a dry but important branch of the question. The National Property Rate, with the aid of sycophants, would remove many obstructions. There has been much controversy and several Parliamentary Acts concerning the regulation of bargains between landlord and tenant.
Nature proposes to the citizen, for his model, men endued with honest, noble, energetic souls, who have usefully served their fellow citizens; superstition recommends to his imitation mean, cringing sycophants; extols pious enthusiasts, frantic penitents, zealous fanatics, who for the most ridiculous opinions have disturbed the tranquility of empires.
Scarcely had the fleet put to sea when it was overtaken by a tremendous storm, in which forty ships foundered with five thousand men. The shattered remnants took refuge in Ferrol. There the ships were to refit, and in the spring the attempt was to be renewed. Thus it was ever with the King of Spain. There was a placid unconsciousness on his part of defeat which sycophants thought sublime.
When Phidias, Praxiteles, and Lysippus moulded their clay models, they had a Pericles, a Plato, or a Demosthenes for their critics and admirers. It was for them they worked, and by them they were stimulated not the rabble crowd of slaves and sycophants.
There were fewer loafers here and he had little hesitation about selecting from an attendant circle of sycophants the genius of the dive Honest George himself, a fat and burly ruffian who filled to overflowing the inadequate accommodation of an armchair.
The new diplomatic relations between the two great western powers were widely different from those which had existed before the war. During the eighteen years which had elapsed between the signing of the Treaty of Dover and the Revolution, all the envoys who had been sent from Whitehall to Versailles had been mere sycophants of the great King.
But there was truth in what he said. The man who piles up money builds a solid wall that shuts out the world from him. Sycophants climb over the wall but their flattery and fawning grow tiresome. Old age and cessation of strong feeling cause the mind to see clearly and hypocrisy no longer deceives in the old, pleasant way.
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