John Morley: “A strong and proud nation had trained itself for long courses of time in habits of dislike for the history, the…”

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.