John Morley: “The Almighty seems to sustain and spare me for some purpose of His own, deeply unworthy as I know myself to be.”

Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.

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.

A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.

They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…