John Morley: “And the noble Soul is like a good mariner; for he, when he draws near the port, lowers his sails and enters it softly…”

Individuals may recover from even serious sickness; it does not appear to be the way with governments.”—Mr.

For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.

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.