Though a true soldier and an able one, he has not the ardent love for military affairs which absorbed Nicholas I. While he is sensitive to national honor as regards his relations with other countries, his home policy is eminently liberal and peaceful.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
He is eminently so.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
He is absent, who when amongst them was so eminently social.
"A Key to Lord Tennyson's 'In Memoriam'"
Alfred Gatty