John Morley: “The general strain of language has been, “Do not let this terrible and flagitious crime deter you from persevering with…”

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

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