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Those whom he liked owed his affection for them to their untiring flatteries. This is what gave his ministers so much authority, and the opportunities they had for adulating him, of attributing everything to him, and of pretending to learn everything from him. Suppleness, meanness, an admiring, dependent, cringing manner above all, an air of nothingness were the sole means of pleasing him.
He was aware that France had less power there than before she had alienated L'Ouverture. He felt that Toussaint was still the sovereign that he had been for ten years past. He knew that a glance of the eye, a lifting of the hand, from Toussaint, wrought more than sheaves of ordinances from himself, and all the commendations and flatteries of the First Consul.
Then a stroke on the poems before Congress. The writer has heard that I 'had been to Paris, was fêted by the Emperor, and had had my head turned by Imperial flatteries, in consequence of which I had taken to 'praise and flatter the tyrant, and try to help his selfish ambition. Well! one should laugh and be wise. But somehow one doesn't laugh.
Had Tom striven at once to return to the former terms, the Lady of Eschalott might have treated it as mere natural homage, compared him with Delaford's delicate flatteries, and disclaimed him.
A tailor or shoemaker, whose reputation perhaps is too bad to gain him a livelihood by any trade but that of a patriot, shall be besieged by the flatteries of people of rank, and have levees as numerous as Choiseul or Calonne in their meridian of power. When a Deputy of the Convention is sent to a town on mission, sadness takes possession of every heart, and gaiety of every countenance.
That man that is resolved for heaven, if Satan cannot win him by flatteries, he will endeavor to weaken him by discouragements, saying, Thou art a sinner, thou hast broke God's law, thou art not elected, thou comest too late, the day of grace & past, God doth not care for thee, thy heart is naught, thou art lazy with a hundred other discouraging suggestions.
Clara to be as direct as possible, even to baldness, and you know I loathe it I could not, I repeat, I could not marry Laetitia Dale! Let me impress it on you. No flatteries we are all susceptible more or less no conceivable condition could bring it about; no amount of admiration. She and I are excellent friends; we cannot be more.
The art editor, with abundant sarcasm, had no more humor than the publisher, and was an easy prey in the manager's hands; but when he had been led on by Fulkerson's flatteries to make some betrayal of egotism, he brooded over it till he had thought how to revenge himself in elaborate insult.
It is not to be expected of a man still young that he can have the wisdom to substitute sound sense for the pleasure of the senses; within sight of a prey the brutal instincts hidden in the heart of man drive him on. Instead of that lesson, I should have sent you compliments and flatteries. Should I have kept my own esteem in so doing? I doubt it.
And what was my discovery of love! a vulgar dancing woman. I failed, as every body does, almost every body; only it is luckier to fail before marriage than after." "Merci du choix, Monsieur" said the Sylphide, making a courtesy. "Look, my little Blanche," said Pen, taking her hand, and with his voice of sad good-humor; "at least I stoop to no flatteries." "Quite the contrary," said Miss Blanche.
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