The firſt that ſovereignized over them that we read of was Cingis-chawn;
It's in the nature of politics, and certainly the presidency, to go through rough patches – times when, because of a boneheaded mistake, an unforeseen circumstance, a sound but unpopular decision, or a failure to communicate – the headlines turn sour and the public finds you wanting.
Always one has to anticipate the others (or others') actions and try to outwit as well as outnerve and outskill the others.
The frontispiece to the first of these books, engraved on steel with much delicacy by Davenport, is so carefully drawn, and displays such refinement of humour, that it might be ascribed to Wilkie or Smirke; and in Knickerbocker, George could hardly then have become a misocapnist when he limned with such intense gusto the Pipe-Plot, with its group of smoke-compelling burghers, or the Death of Walter the Doubter, where his lymphatic Excellency, lungs and pipe exhausted together, exhales his peaceful soul in the last whiff of canaster!
Pipe-Plot,
Death of Walter the Doubter,
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