Author : William C. Alexander
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780260844750
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (447 download)
Book Synopsis The Princeton Magazine, Vol. 1 by : William C. Alexander
Download or read book The Princeton Magazine, Vol. 1 written by William C. Alexander and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Princeton Magazine, Vol. 1: March 1850 Convei sational tac't and power have scope in lobbies and committee rooms and it is well known that the heavy work of legislation is done 1n these les's public places. It is not always, perhaps not often, that g1 eat ten-hour speeches turn the ship of state. There are men of weak voice and bash ful m1en, who yet have' their turn at the helm. No reporter sends abroad the broken discourses, utte1 ed in hushed voices, in ante-room's, coaches, and-offices, at dead of night, which seal the fate of bills, and rend or. Heal commonwealths. The daily intercourse of statesmen, during the hours of relaxation from public business, has an influence on national affairs, which is not easily computed, and which indeed is not generally known. To one un'acquainted with the odd and indirect way in which the world is governed, it is strange to. See craters who have been all day darting rhetorical bolts at each other across the hall of legislation, walking home arm in arm or exchanging badinage at the evening assembly. It marks an evil day when such courtesies are altogether pro scribed. Free social intercourse thus tends to still the ag1 tatien of political turmoil, and many a wound of the Senate House is healed in the familiarnmeeting. In the history of diplomacy, the powerful intervention of the gentlen sex has been acknowledged 'to be sometimes irresistible. The soirees of the Revolution were only less m1ghty than the clubs. Even when not ostensibly political, like\the reunions at Ma dame Roland's, they had their effect on leading minds, and so on government and legislation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
