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Updated: August 26, 2024
The political choreutæ are clapping their hands, encouraging them by name and pointing them out to the gallery. The government of a native state by clerks and chuprassies, with a beautiful fainéant Political Agent for Sundays and Hindu festivals, is, I am told, a thing of the past.
I have tow on the rock, and it must be spun off. Let us see our present undertakings. 1. Napoleon. 2. Review Home, Cranbourne Chase, and the Mysteries. 3. Something for that poor faineant Gillies. 4. Essay on Ballad and Song. 5. Something on the modern state of France. These two last for the Prose Works. But they may " do a little more, And produce a little ore." Come, we must up and be doing.
The lament of Lord Anglesea, the Lord Lieutenant, in 1831, who, finding himself a roi faineant, declared that "Things are now come to that pass that the question is whether O'Connell or I shall govern Ireland," found its echo just fifty years later when Parnell enjoyed so powerful a position that writers were fain to draw a contrast between the coroneted impotence of the head of the Executive and the uncrowned power of the Irish leader.
The absence of real work, and the quantity of mock work, both alike made the life wearisome to him; but he could not endure the idea that it should be written in history that he had allowed himself to be made a fainéant Prime Minister, and then had failed even in that.
By permission of Messrs. What kind of an assembly, it may be asked, is the New Zealand Parliament which Atkinson's force of character enabled him to lead so long, and which has borne undivided rule over the Colony since 1876? The best answer can be found in the story of the Colony, for the General Assembly, at all events, has never been a fainéant ruler.
From 1666, when he became prime minister in Yedo, Sakai Tadakiyo seems to have deliberately planned the relegation of his master to the position of a fainéant and the succession of the shogun's son to supreme power. Tadakiyo's lust of authority was equalled only by his cupidity. Everything went to the highest bidder.
During the interval of 114 years between the death of Sanetomo and the fall of the Hojo , there were six of these fainéant officials: Age at Age at Appn't Depos'n Fujiwara Yoritsune, 1219-1244 2 27 Yoritsugu 1244-1252 5 13 Prince Munetaka, 1252-1266 10 24 elder brother of Go-Fukakusa Prince Koreyasu, son of Munetaka 1266-1289 3 26 Prince Hisaakira, son of Go-Fukakusa 1289-1308 13 32
I remember it was in this coterie, in the middle of a discourse, in which I was showing the necessity of a FIRST cause, when the young Count de Faineant took me by the hand to the farthest corner of the room, to tell me my solitaire was pinn'd too straight about my neck. The Count de Faineant embraced me with more ardour than ever I was embraced by mortal man.
Looking forward to Feodor's death, Boris made ready to mount the throne; and he saw what all other "Mayors of the Palace" climbing into the places of faineant kings have seen that he must link to his fortunes the fortunes of some strong body in the nation; he broke, however, from the general rule among usurpers bribing the church and determined to bribe the nobility.
Unless I am much mistaken the key is to be found in a very curious story related in the Perlesvaus, which is twice referred to in texts of a professedly historical character. The tale runs thus. King Arthur has fallen into slothful and faineant ways, much to the grief of Guenevere, who sees her lord's fame and prestige waning day by day.
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