John Morley: “We found a society in a state of decomposition, and we have undertaken the serious and stupendous process of…”

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

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

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.

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…