[Footnote 12: A great statesman of Confucius's time.

Republic, strength of feeling against the, in Paris "society;" enthusiasm of farmers over the; disappointment of statesmen in the; moderation of feeling in society circles toward the, at present time.

But the statesman at home who, drawing good pay and living in comfort far behind the Front, is ever ready to declare that his country "shall continue to bleed in her glory" is a less admirable spectacle.

The whole negro population of Africa is now rotten with diseases introduced by Arabs and Europeans during the last century, and such African statesmen as Sir Harry Johnston are eloquent upon the necessity of saving the blacksand the baser whitesfrom the effects of trade gin and similar alluring articles of commerce.

Something more than common sense binds our statesmen to this idea.

Now, ten years later, the more far-seeing statesmen on both sides were preparing to confirm the new friendship in the practical form of Jay's Treaty, which put the United States into what is at present known as a most-favoured-nation position with regard to British trade and commerce.

Before the War, when Italy was Germany's ally, the leading German statesmen with whom I had occasion to discuss the situation did nothing but allude to the Russian peril.

How often must a theoretical statesman like myself, have regretted that incomparable invention, the ring of Gyges!

He loved glory indeed, but, like Sully and Colbert, he also wished to develop the national resources; and, as indeed all enlightened statesmen from Moses downward have sought to do, he wished to make the country strong for defence rather than offence.

He was more of a statesman than the leader of a party.

In the year 1788 when our Federal Union was completed, the problem had already occupied the minds of American statesmen for a century and a half,that is to say, ever since the English settlement of Massachusetts.

He appears to have set before himself the wholly impossible task of being both a genuine philosopher and a statesman under the Caesars.

If I may say it, every Southron of the old régime was a statesman by nature and training.

" But the old statesman before her was no such fool as to waste time in a lost cause.

The hoary statesman out of place would sell his daughter, his country, his soul, to regain it: yea, he would part with his skin and his senses, were it possible to hold office without them.

They often cited the United States, how no statesman after the signing of the Declaration of Independence (in Philadelphia) would have ventured to propose that the Parliament should sit in New York or Philadelphia, but the reason there was very different; they were obliged to make a neutral zone, something between the North and the South.

I. Our resident Tom, From Venice is come, And hath left the statesman behind him.

Statesmen without number have seen it.

The beginnings of an approximation were laid by the dismissal of Beust, who himself now was to become a personal friend of the statesman against whom he had for so long and with such ingenuity waged an unequal conflict.

He was simple in his habits and style of life, and was greater as a philosopher than as a practical statesman amid popular discontents.

Wood says that he was but an indifferent divine, and that he was very ignorant of antiquity and the learning of the fathers, but he allows him to be a man of a pleasant and fruitful imagination, and a statesman beyond any that succeeded him.

No sooner, therefore, had a state of things arisen here that seemed to warrant a renewal of the insulting treatment that was a thing of course in 1807, than we were made to see how hollow were those professions of friendship for America that were not uncommon in the mouths of British statesmen during the ten or twelve years that preceded the advent of Secession.

The historic and psychological problem of Thomas Becket is his startling transformation from an easy-going, luxurious, worldly statesman into a gaunt ecclesiastic, fanatically fighting for the rights of his see, of his order, and of Rome.

But Mercy was a statesman above every thing, and, feeling secure of being able to guide the queen, he desired to instill into her mind an ambition to govern the king.