Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Talleyrand” in chapter 6, page 113 of George Ticknor, Life, letters and journals of George Ticknor:
...same offers and suggestions, both to Talleyrand and to Bonaparte.
Of Hamilton he spoke with great praise and admiration; but said he must qualify it somewhat, because Hamilton once said to him that Talleyrand was the greatest of modem statesmen, because he had so well known when it was necessary both to suffer wrong to be done and to do it. Talleyrand, he said, who had been the entire cause of
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