Gladstone stood in the most trying of all the varied positions of his life, and without flinching he confronted it in the strong faith that the national honour as well as the assuagement (M128) of the inveterate Irish wound in the flank of his country, were the issues at stake.
Morley highlights Gladstone's resilience in facing a challenging political situation, emphasizing the stakes involved.
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Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
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.
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