John Morley: “His speech contained a remarkable passage, pronouncing definitely against denominational endowment of university…”

True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.

Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.

A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.

Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.