Yet some of those, for instance, who most ardently admired President Lincoln for the caution with which he advanced step by step to the abolition proclamation, have most freely censured the English statesman because he did not in the autumn of 1885 come out with either a downright Yes or a point-blank No.
Morley critiques the inconsistency in public expectations of political leaders' decisiveness.
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But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.
If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.
I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
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