John Morley: “There need be no surprise in the fact that they want a share in political influence, and want a share in the emoluments…”

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

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

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.