| Gail Hamilton - United States - 1895 - 1130 pages
...desperate when in possession of it. The third section is the Reformers by profession, the " unco good." They are to be treated with respect, but they are...ambitious but not wise, pretentious but not powerful ! They can be easily dealt with, andean be hitched to your administration with ease. I could handle... | |
| Gail Hamilton - 1895 - 808 pages
...is the Reformers by profession, the "unco good." They are to be treated with respect, but they arc the worst possible political advisers — upstarts,...ambitious but not wise, pretentious but not powerful ! They can be easily dealt with, andean be hitched to your administration with ease. 1 could handle... | |
| John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1897 - 832 pages
...keen analysis of the sections of the Republican party, including " the Reformers by profession . . . noisy but not numerous, pharisaical but not practical,...ambitious but not wise, pretentious but not powerful. They can be easily dealt with, and can be hitched to your administration with ease" (p. 491). We see... | |
| Elisha Benjamin Andrews - United States - 1896 - 448 pages
...triumphantly chosen over Democrats and Independents, but for the miserable John-Johns. " ELAINE'S MAGNETISM nothing of practical reform that you are not a thousand...told, since his long public career, like an extended sea-coast, was at a disadvantage on the defensive. Love for the man was equally uncompromising, most... | |
| Howard Walter Caldwell - Statesmen - 1900 - 282 pages
...desperate when in possession of it. The third section is the Reformers by profession, the "unco good." They are to be treated with respect, but they are...ambitious but not wise, pretentious but not powerful! They can be easily dealt with, and can be hitched to your administration with ease. I could handle... | |
| Book collecting - 1905 - 660 pages
...characterised by Mr. Blaine four years earlier in a letter to General Garfield, in which he said : "They are noisy but not numerous ; pharisaical but...ambitious but not wise ; pretentious but not powerful." This sentence is extremely characteristic of the man who wrote it. Mr. Blaine was an old campaigner.... | |
| Harry Thurston Peck - United States - 1906 - 994 pages
...been described by Mr. Blaine four years earlier in a letter to General Garfield, in which he said: "They are noisy but not numerous; pharisaical but...ambitious but not wise; pretentious but not powerful." This sentence was extremely characteristic of the man who wrote it. Mr. Blaine was an old campaigner.... | |
| Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1902 - 394 pages
...possible political advisers, . . . foolish, vain, without knowledge of measures, ignorant of men, . . . pharisaical, but not practical; ambitious, but not wise; pretentious, but not powerful." Mr. Cleveland knew too much of the sterling character and wide experience of the particular group of... | |
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