John Morley: “The giant mass of secular English prejudice against Ireland frowned like a mountain chain across the track.”

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.

True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.

It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.