Gli statisti . come immobili la maturazione del tempo eil disponibilità della gente ad andare con lui a theend della cosa da fare. Sebbene egli ap-peared per essere led, egli ha costantemente e abilmente andsubtly led. Per l'ultimo dei suoi costumi erano semplici, unaf-fettuate, e libero da anche l'aspetto ofself-consapevole grandezza. Quando viene toccato in hismanly dignità, ha mostrato il suo risentimento; ealla volte, quando egli era stato troppo a lungo sottoposto lacoppia di preoccupazione e di ceppo dei doveri del suo posto,egli era umanamente irritabile e anche critico.Una volta, quando un visitatore aveva esaurito il suo patiencewith sua volgarità, egli si alzò e,

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Statesmen . as immovable the ripeness of the time andthe readiness of the people to go with him to theend of the thing to be done. Although he ap-peared to be led, he constantly and artfully andsubtly led. To the last his manners were simple, unaf-fected, and free from even the appearance ofself-conscious greatness. When touched in hismanly dignity, he showed his resentment; andat times, when he had been too long subjected tothe worry and strain of the duties of his place, he was humanly irritable and even captious.Once, when a visitor had exhausted his patiencewith his profanity, he rose and, with awful dig- ABRAHAM LINCOLN 221 nity, motioned the offender through the openeddoor. And at another time, when one of hisdearest friends had been maligned in a memoriallaid before him, he asked if the paper were his totreat as he pleased, and answered affirmatively, he calmly laid the document on the burningcoals in the grate and bade the delegates good-morning. The folk-lore, the multitudinous stories ab-. Death-mask of Lincoln. sorbed in the years of his roving frontier life, were of inestimable value to Lincoln ; and theseare popularly associated in any view of his lifeand character. But he seldom told a story forthe mere sake of telling it. Invariably, the anec-dote, the incident, the humorsome jest had pithand point. Taken from the setting that Lincolngave it, it was merely funny; as he gave it, itwas the barbed arrow that sent the argument orsaying home. This has been excellently de- 222 STATESMEN scribed by Emerson, who, in his funeral addressat Concord, said: He is the author of a multi-tude of good sayings, so disguised as pleasant-ries that it is certain that they had no reputationat first but as jests; and only later, by the veryacceptance and adoption they find in the mouthsof millions, turn out to be the wisdom of thehour. I am sure if this man had ruled in aperiod of less facility of printing, he would havebecome mythological in a very few years, like^Esop or Pil

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