The Statesman

activity acts administration Administrative Government advantage affairs ambition amongst better cabinet career CHAPTER character circumstances civil service clerks Colonial Office common commonly CONCERNING conscience consider consideration Disraeli duties Edinburgh Review effect evil executive executive government exercise faculties favour feel Gladstone hand Henry Taylor House imagination importance individual intellectual interests James Spedding judgment kind knowledge labour least less literary Lord Bacon Lord John Russell Machiavelli man's mankind manner matters maxim measures ment merit mind minister moral nature never Northcote-Trevelyan Report objects observed occasion opinion Parliament parliamentary party perhaps persons Philip van Artevelde philosophy political politicians popular practice principle profession purpose question reason reform rule sense Sir Charles Trevelyan Sir James Stephen society spirit statesman statesmanship station Stephen talent Taylor things thought tion transaction truth whilst wisdom write young