Gladstone’s curious instinct for liberty disclosed to him that here was a case of “a people rightly struggling to be free.” The phrase was mocked and derided then and down to the end of the chapter.
Morley discusses Gladstone's perspective on the struggle for freedom in the Soudan.
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There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
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.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.
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