 | 1871 - 380 pages
...tracing effects to their real causes through all the intricacies of his conduct. I was, as I told you, at one time the dupe of his acted insanity, and clung...to their intrinsic value, considering them only as cyphers which must derive all their import from the situation in which he places them, and the ends... | |
 | Walter Alwyn Briscoe - 1924 - 350 pages
...tracing effects to their real causes through all the intricacies of his conduct. I was, as I told you, at one time the dupe of his acted insanity, and clung...regard to the motives that concerned me personally until the whole system was laid bare. He is the absolute monarch of words, and uses them, as Bonaparte... | |
 | 1869 - 986 pages
...effects to their real causes through all the intricacies of his conduct. I was, as I have told you, at one time the dupe of his acted insanity, and clung...me personally till the whole system was laid bare. Ho is the absolute monarch of words, and uses them, as Buonaparte did Uves, for conquest, without more... | |
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I am decidedly of opinion that he is responsible. He has wished to be thought partially deranged, or on the brink of it, to perplex observers and prevent them from tracing effects to their real causes through all the intricacies of his conduct. I was,... 
