John Morley: “I am perfectly convinced that one may be, through study, a thousand times more useful to men than in any of our…”

It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.

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

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

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.