John Morley: “He is like an ancient soldier wounded in the back.”

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.

I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.

An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.