 | Henry Pereira Mendes - Jewish statesmen - 1904 - 110 pages
...circumstances are its slaves." And again : " Mark what I say : it is truth. No minister ever yet fell from his own inefficiency. If his downfall be occasioned,...his cannon can dissipate the impending water-spout." As for the force which heredity exercised in the development of his character and in the creation of... | |
 | Henry Pereira Mendes - Jewish statesmen - 1904 - 110 pages
...should never have employed. If he fall through the open attacks of his political opponents, his 84 downfall is equally deserved for having occasioned...his cannon can dissipate the impending water-spout." As for the force which heredity exercised in the development of his character and in the creation of... | |
 | William White - Great Britain - 1904 - 256 pages
...possibly occur (to a Minister), however fearful, however tremendous it may appear, from whence a man, of his own energy, may not extricate himself, as a mariner...his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout." Forty years have come and gone since this was written, and during that long time how often has he proved... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli - British - 1906 - 502 pages
...party, for having allowed it to be formed. or for not having crushed it when formed. No conjecture can possibly occur, however fearful, however tremendous...which a man, by his own energy, may not extricate hims*-'J, as a mariner by the rattling of his cannon can dissipate the impending water-spout!" CHAPTER... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1907 - 814 pages
...what I say : it is truth. No minister ever yet fell but from his own inefficiency. If his downfall'be occasioned, as it generally is, by the intrigues of...his cannon can dissipate the impending waterspout!' ( From Vivian Grey.} HOPES DISPELLED GRATITUDE to Lord Grey was the hustings cry at the end of 1832,... | |
 | William Flavelle Monypenny, George Earle Buckle - Great Britain - 1910 - 468 pages
...Circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents, and man is more powerful than matter.' ' No conjuncture can possibly occur, however fearful,...which a man, by his own energy, may not extricate himself.'1 In Beckendorff Vivian Grey sees a man with his own principles of conduct whose ambition... | |
 | Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) - 1919 - 512 pages
...his downfall is merited for having been the dupe of a tool which in all probability he should never employed. If he fall through the open attacks of his...can dissipate the impending water-spout ! ' CHAPTER VTII. IT was on the third day of the visit to Mr. Beckeudorff, just as that gentleman was composing... | |
 | Charles Richmond, Paul Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 232 pages
...course of Nature, and my own mind (VI, vii). And Beckendorff, who depends 'only upon himself, concludes: 'No conjuncture can possibly occur, however fearful,...man, by his own energy, may not extricate himself (VI, vii). The essence of virtu is boldness. Boldness is the principal instrument with which fortune... | |
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Mark what I say: it is truth. No Minister ever yet fell, but from his own inefficiency. If his downfall be occasioned, as it generally is, by the intrigues of one of his own creatures, his downfall is merited for having been the dupe of a tool, which... 
