John Morley: “Agrarian customs developed that undoubtedly belong to a backward social system, but they sprang from the necessities of…”

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

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.

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