John Morley: “Europe,” he said, “has lost a mistress and got a master.” Annexation wore an ugly look.”

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.

I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.