But though a chief landlord, or a stipendiary magistrate, may occasionally be sacrificed, the great majority of victims are furnished by the humblest class.

Not sympathy, but terror, seals the lip and clouds the eye of the bystander.

But it is observable, that no individuals now grumble so much as the farmers who voted for free trader in 1847, unless indeed it be the shipowners, every one of whom for years, both in and out of Parliament, supported the repeal of the…

There cannot be two moralities; and to hold that the Second Person of the Holy Trinity could teach a different morality from that which had been already revealed by the First Person of the Holy Trinity, is a dogma so full of terror that it…

It was for something deeper than this, higher and holier than even Moses could fulfil, that angels announced the Coming.

Born from the chosen house of the chosen people, yet blending in his inexplicable nature the Divine essence with the human elements, a sacrificial Mediator was to appear, appointed before all time, to purify with his atoning blood the…

The doctrine embraces all space and time--nay, chaos and eternity; Divine persons are the agents, and the redemption of the whole family of man the result.

If the Jews had not prevailed upon the Romans to crucify our Lord, what would have become of the Atonement?

But the human mind cannot contemplate the idea that the most important deed of time could depend upon human will.

The immolators were preordained like the victim, and the holy race supplied both.

Could that be a crime which secured for all mankind eternal joy--which vanquished Satan, and opened the gates of Paradise?

Such a tenet would sully and impugn the doctrine that is the corner-stone of our faith and hope.

But there is nothing in which the power of circumstances is more evident than in politics.

They baffle the forethought of statesmen, and control even the apparently inflexible laws of national development and decay.

An abused and indignant soil repudiated the ungrateful race that had exhausted and degraded its once exuberant bosom.

The land refused to hold those who would not hold the land on terms of justice and of science.

What a barbarous and odious policy, that goes upon the principle that none but capitalists are henceforth to be allowed to live, as farmers at least.

The field is legitimately open to speculation where all agree that all is hopeless.

Where millions were to be expended by the state, something more advantageous to the community should accrue than the temporary subsistence of the multitude.

The first element of success in railway enterprise, according to the highest authorities, is population; property is only the second consideration.

The statement made a great impression upon the House and the country; but, unfortunately for the government, the more necessary they made the measure appear, the more unjustifiable was their conduct in not immediately and vehemently…

It was a strange and touching spectacle to those who remembered the form of colossal energy and the clear and thrilling tones that had once startled, disturbed, and controlled senates.

It proved, by a mass of authentic evidence ranging over a long term of years, that Irish outrage was the consequence of physical misery, and that the social evils of that country could not be successfully encountered by political remedies.

Coercion Bills might be occasionally necessary; no doubt of it; Lord Grey had once a Coercion Bill, and Lord John Russell had voted for it; but then remedial measures ought to be introduced with coercive ones: the evil should be repressed…

All the fruits of his laborious investigations were always at the service of his friends without reserve or self-consideration.