They believe, with certain misgivings, that he can offer them a new and more satisfactory system of foreign policy; and, with no misgivings, that he will break up the torpor which has fallen upon internal affairs.
Morley conveys the public's hopes for transformative changes in foreign and internal policies under the chancellor's leadership.
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Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
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.
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