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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Art. II.?The Life and Times of .the Right Hon. W. H. Smith, M.P. By Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart., M.P. Edinburgh and London, 1893. FTHERE are few spheres of active work in life in which, to ] the outsider, memories seem so short and recollections so evanescent as in that genetically known as politics. An eminent politician dies suddenly, or after a few weeks' illness. Up to the time of his death the daily papers teemed with reports of his sayings and doings, his qualities, his methods of administration, and his management of men; some notices might be friendly, some hostile, but all recognized the power of the man himself, and the impress of his personality on the questions of the day. His death is noted by a kindly panegyric in the press; possibly a sympathetic eulogium from a friend in Parliament testifies to his merits as a colleague; but his old place in popular estimation knows him no more, his sun is set, and all eves and ears turn instinctively eastward to welcome and watch his successor. To revive and perpetuate his memory becomes now the immediate object of his relatives and friends. Let his biography be written before his name is forgotten, and the sooner the better. It is, however, an error to suppose that public men or the political world generally are less grateful to leaders who have successfully managed their affairs, or less mindful of old friends and colleagues, than those in other occupations. On the contrary, nowhere are truer or more lasting friendships made than in Parliament, and nowhere is the memory of a useful and public-spirited man longer respected or cherished than among those whom he represented or for whom he toiled. The practical work of the politician lies before and not behind him. It is in the struggle of the day, in noting the effects of per...
| ISBN-13 | 9781458905345 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1458905349 |
| Weight | 0.78 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.54 In |
| List Price | $30.06 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 236 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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