John Morley: “They claim no immunity from errors of opinion or judgment, but their errors are nothing compared with yours.”

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.