Benjamin Disraeli: “The Saxon, the Sclav, and the Celt have adopted most of the laws and many of the customs of these Arabian tribes, all…”

All the fruits of his laborious investigations were always at the service of his friends without reserve or self-consideration.

Yet truth, after all, is the sovereign passion of mankind; nor is the writer of these pages prepared to relinquish his conviction that it is possible to combine the accuracy of the present with the impartiality of the future.

They baffle the forethought of statesmen, and control even the apparently inflexible laws of national development and decay.

Liberal politicians, who some years ago were very loud for justice to Ireland, and would maintain at all hazards the identity of the interests of the two countries, have of late frequently found it convenient to omit that kingdom from…