The ambition of Russia is most elaborately exposed in an essay highly poeticized.

So that we understand what we ought to do; but when we come to deliberate, we play booty against ourselves

More to the point of this place than the crags and glens on the dining-room wall are the two fine colour prints of clipper ships in frames of birdseye maple.

A Greek, and writing in Greek, he seems to take Rome and its history as one of the facts of life. You cannot think of him as either a Romanophobe or a Romanophile.