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Paul looked back at the Reverend Mother. Politeness and his mother’s obvious awe of this old woman argued caution. Yet he felt an angry apprehension at the fear he sensed radiating from his mother.
Source: Dune ▫𓂃
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Wead, a fellow delegate to the 1847 Illinois constitutional convention, voiced some other negative feelings people had about Logan. Wead confided to his diary that Logan was clever and skillful but given to “sophistry.” Shallow, even devious, he was “always specious, frequently ingenious and sometimes powerful, but his great forte is in making a skillful use of men’s prejudices.… Sometimes he approaches a subject boldly, probes it to the bottom and handles it like a man of intellect, but such instances are rare, and only occur where the subject itself is not deep or obscure. He has always, an argument calculated to draw the mind from deep and useful investigation—he plays around the true question, raising collateral issues, and deceiving men with straws and chaff, while the grain is not seen.… His mind is limited to a certain sphere, but in that limit he is superior. Quick of apprehension, possessing a happy faculty of compassion, and great knowledge of the prejudices of men, he is calculated to exercise & does exercise a great influence: but with all his influence and all his tact he is utterly unable to comprehend the strength of a powerful intellect or the superiority of a mind which towers immensely above his own.”
Source: Abraham Lincoln∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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In 1864, after calling at the White House, a Quaker wrote Mary Lincoln explaining how she could help the president: “Thou hast it in thy power to strengthen his hands in the great work in which he is engaged, to encourage him in seasons of deep discouragement; to soothe & cheer him in times of depression; to divert his attention in seasons of relaxation, from the heavy pressure of care & the weight of Government; to train his sons to honor their father & their father’s God, to shield him from all little cares & annoyances in his home.” Instead of performing those functions, Mrs. Lincoln was a constant source of anxiety and embarrassment to her husband, who often talked to Orville H. Browning “about his domestic troubles.” As Browning reported, the president “several times told me there [in the White House] that he was constantly under great apprehension lest his wife should do something which would bring him into disgrace.” David Davis also worried that Mary Lincoln “will disgrace her husband.” They had good reason to be apprehensive. As if Lincoln did not have enough trouble dealing with recalcitrant generals, editors, senators, governors, congressmen, office seekers, and cabinet members—not to mention Confederates—the First Lady added immeasurably to his woes.
Source: Abraham Lincoln∶ A Life ▫𓂃
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