A Letter to a Late Cabinet Minister On the Present Crisis
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On learning from those who can best judge, that in office . At least the imputation was unjust, I took, long since, the opportu- nity of a new edition to efface it from that work. 45 scribe him : — *' Few persons could have been se- lected by a king, as prime minister, in those days of violent party, and of constant change, who were more fitted by nature and circumstances to act with the people, hut for the King. A Politician probably less ardentthan sagacious, he was exactly the man to conform... to the genius of a particular time ; — to know how far to go with prudence — where to stop with success ; not vehement in temper, not inordinate in ambition, he was not likely to be hurried away by private objects, af- fections, or resentments. To the moment of his elevation as premier, it can scarcely be said of his political life that it affords one example of impru- dence. * Not to commit himself, ' wsls at one time supposed to be his particular distinction. His philosophy was less that which deals with abstract doctrines than that which teaches how to com- mand shifting and various circumstances.
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