Gladstone’s special activities as a reformer brought him into contact with the conditions of life and feeling among the workmen, (M36) and the closer he came to them, the more did his humane and sympathetic temper draw him towards their politics and the ranks of their party.
Morley discusses Gladstone's engagement with the working class and how it shaped his political views.
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Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
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.
People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
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