To retain any dignity in such an abject state would require a man of very different virtues from those claimed by the not unvirtuous Laupepa.

He is not designed to ride the whirlwind or direct the storm, rather to be the ornament of private life.

He is kind, gentle, patient as Job, conspicuously well-intentioned, of charming manners; and when he pleases, he has one accomplishment in which he now begins to be alone--I mean that he can pronounce correctly his own beautiful language.
The government of Brandeis accomplished a good deal and was continually and heroically attempting more.

The government of our two whites has confined itself almost wholly to paying and receiving salaries.

They have built, indeed, a house for the president; they are believed (if that be a merit) to have bought the local newspaper with government funds; and their rule has been enlivened by a number of scandals, into which I feel with relief that it is unnecessary I should enter.