John Morley: “All that I hear from day to day convinces me of the extension of this strange epidemic, for it is not, considering how…”

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

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.