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Meanings of practical statesman in English

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Usage of practical statesman in English
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Mr. Gladstone is a practical statesman, and with some instinct divined the inevitable.
The Grand Old Man / Or, the Life and Public Services of the Righ...
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In this spirit he acted as a practical statesman, and wrote his history.
The History of Rome, Book IV / The Revolution
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He was often more of a doctrinaire than a practical statesman.
Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch
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I speak as a plain practical statesman-butsurely your philosophy will not dissent?'
Hypatia — or New Foes with an Old Face
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The practical statesman has a very different task to perform.
State of the Union Addresses
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Milton's ideas were not such as could have value in the eyes of a practical statesman.
Milton
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But Mr. Jefferson was not a practical statesman.
Albert Gallatin
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But in spite of this the practical statesman will admire the work as well as the master-workman.
The History of Rome, Book V / The Establishment of the Military ...
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The really practical statesman does not fit himself to existing conditions, he denounces the conditions as unfit.
A Miscellany of Men
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But I am only a practical statesman.
Kimono
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The true practical statesman is he who combines this experience with a profound knowledge of abstract political philosophy.
Essays on some unsettled Questions of Political Economy
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He has proved that Bacon, as a practical statesman, was in advance of his age, rather than behind it.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861 / A Maga...
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Lord Haldane is not what Prodicus used to call "a Boundary Stone, half philosopher and half practical statesman."
The Mirrors of Downing Street / Some Political Reflections by a ...
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As a practical statesman and administrator, he urged the necessity of reform upon the princes whom one after another he served.
The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 01
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These political adjustments of Plato's will be criticised by the practical statesman as being for the most part fanciful and ineffectual.
Laws
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As a practical statesman, one principal point of view in which we must regard Pericles is in his capacity of a financier.
Athens: Its Rise and Fall, Book V
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