Representative Statesmen, Vol. 2 of 2: Political Studies (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The views of. The great Tory leader were, on the other hand, carried to the opposite extreme, and in the study of comparative evil, it would be curious to learn which of the two is the more mischievous, the injury that ensues from over haste, or that which attends upon over deliberation. The career of Lord Eldon is the biography of a man never content with half-measures or hurried duties. His intellectual grasp was so powerful that he was never satisfied until he had fathomed the subj ect that interested him to its lowest depths. Not slow, but patient, laborious, and intensely deliberative, he would weigh and analyze every argument that he read, heard, or uttered, till he felt it impossible that the deductions he arrived at could be erroneous. The severest master he had to satisfy was himself. Though destitute of imagination, his was one of those quick, acute minds which see obj ections where others fail to perceive them, and comprehend a question from so many points of view that decision necessarily be comes a matter of always long and painful process. So anxious was he to do his work well, that he considered the time engaged upon it as purely of secondary consideration. In after life, when seated on the J udicial Bench, his almost too careful ad.

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