"Tergiversation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... obliterate the impression produced by his countenance, and charm those whom it was his interest to please. His effrontery was unconquerable: whilst conscious of the most venal motives, and even after he had displayed to the world a shameless tergiversation, he had the assurance always to claim for himself the merit of patriotism. "For my part," he said on one occasion, in conversation with his friends, "I die a ...
— Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 - Volume II. • Mrs. Thomson |
