He encouraged them by making occasions for their exertions, and would relinquish his own opportunity without a moment’s hesitation, if he thought the abandonment might aid a better man.
From a biography of Lord George Bentinck, this illustrates his selflessness in creating opportunities for others and sacrificing his own for a better candidate.
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The cotemporary writer who is personally familiar with his theme has unquestionably a great advantage; but it is assumed that his pen can scarcely escape the bias of private friendship or political connection.
Such a tenet would sully and impugn the doctrine that is the corner-stone of our faith and hope.
Those who have treated of the agrarian crimes of Ireland have remarked, that the facility with which these outrages have been committed has only been equalled by the difficulty of punishing them.
Not sympathy, but terror, seals the lip and clouds the eye of the bystander.
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