SIR GEOFGE GREY PHOTOGRAPHED.
Thb Otago Witness says:— Sir Geo^^ may be undoubtedly acquitted of any J mercenary motive, he may be, and we think is, the prey to an overweening conceit ahd ambition, whioh makes him desire power at any price. He would rather. Reign m hell than serve m heaven and this may, and we think does, distort, his vision and arouse his passions When he is opposed, so that he goes to greater lengths than otherwise he would do. ,We know that a great poet attributes qualities which m themselves are not altogether ignoble to Satan himself. Indomitable will, immortal hate And courage never to submit or yield, And what is else not to be overcome. ■■■■■■ Sir George, however, is not Satan^ though, . like many other men m this world, he has, doubtless, a mixture of the old enemy m hira. All that we now wish to point out is, that it does not entirely follow because he has no pecuniary aim that there is no selfishness at bottom of his nature.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 883, 6 September 1879, Page 2
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