This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888. Excerpt: ... OPENING REMARKS BY THE DISTINGUISHED DIPLOMAT. SE must be a strong combination of uninteresting vacuity and fatuous imbecility, or must have been sent into the world unfurnished with that modulating and restraining balance-wheel which we call a sense of the beautiful, who in his old age is unable to appreciate with all the ardor of youthful enthusiasm those ever-inspiring yet simple tales which have been handed down, almost I might say ab urbe condita, to us, our children, et nat natorum et qui nascentur ab illis, without being accused of going extra muros veritatis. "Vive le roi! was an expression commonly used in France in the days prior to the great Revolution,--ante bellum days, as the Latins so beautifully termed them. May I not adapt to the present occasion this undying line from French literature, and cry from the depths of my heart, Vive le Fairoi? I think I may. "As I have frequently remarked on other occasions, I should have preferred that this office I am to perform to-day had fallen to another. It has been many years since I have 'Dag an' delf in Impe and Elfin,' as our great--I should say England's. great--poet Chaucer might have said upon a similar occasion, had he been called upon to stand in loco moderatoris to so enlightened an assemblage as I see before me. There are others who are better fitted than I to act in this capacity; but as I have made it one of the invariable rules of my life nec quare nec spernere konorem,--ich dicn. "Not to detain you longer than is necessary,--for, as Bacon has said, when things are come to the execution there is no secrecy comparable to celerity,--I will introduce to you the Eminent Realist, with whom, in accordance with the scriptural prophecy, 'By their works ye shall know them,' many of you are doubtles...
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