"Unpolitical" Quotes from Famous Books
... politician Selwyn, as has already been said, was a sinecurist; he never took a political interest in affairs of state, and he looked at events which have become historical from an unpolitical point of view. But though he writes of parliamentary incidents as a spectator, there is always in his letters a personal characterisation which gives them vividness and life. For his long parliamentary ... — George Selwyn: His Letters and His Life • E. S. Roscoe and Helen Clergue |