John Morley: “He now proceeded passionately to dash into the dust the whole fabric of policy which he had with such infinite sagacity…”

Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.

A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.

Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.

They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…