It inspired men with a tender zeal for the truth, and by establishing the necessity of a body of teachers for the instruction of nations, made studiousness and intellectual application indispensable in a great number of persons.
Morley reflects on the transformative power of education and the role of teachers in society.
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People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
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