John Morley: “All epochs are fastened together by a sequence of causes and effects, linking the condition of the world to all the…”

If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.

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

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

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?