We might be tempted to call good letter-writing one of “the little handicraft of an idle man”; but then two of the most perfect masters of the art were Cicero and Voltaire, two of the most occupied personages that ever lived.
Morley argues that great letter-writing is not limited to idle individuals, citing Cicero and Voltaire as examples of busy masters of the craft.
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Individuals may recover from even serious sickness; it does not appear to be the way with governments.”—Mr.
Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
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