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"He is perhaps the only example which history affords of one man having governed the most opposite events and proved sufficient for the most various destinies."
No man's character was ever so completely and so tersely summed up as the great Oliver's is here in these few words of a critic belonging to another race and nation, and, as regards his varied destinies, it may be added that no man ever was raised up and set to work by the Controller of human destinies as opportunely as he was.