John Morley: “Exclusion, along with the exaction of revenue from Ireland by the parliament at Westminster, was taxation without…”

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

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