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 thoughts, on occasions when there rests on him an obligation to speak the truth. The word 'falsiloquy' (falsiloguium) is to be used of a false discourse to persons who have no right to insist on our telling them the truth in a particular case.

'Mon grand art, s'il m'est permis de me citer, est de paroître simple et vrai. Je me pique de posséder cette dernière qualité; cependant vous connoissez ma manière de manœuvrer, vous m'avez suivi pas à pas, imitez-moi donc.' Thus did a French ambassador to Vienna in 1717 instruct the secretary to the embassy who was temporarily left in charge. Sir Robert Walpole, a master-worker of large visible results by means of little positive action, asked Lord Stanhope to remember that 'in England the manner of doing things is often more to be regarded than the thing is itself'. Lord Stanhope, the immediate and distinguished precursor of the still more brilliant Carteret in the conduct of foreign affairs and international diplomacy, used to say, according to Lady Mary Montagu,