Like every other grand missionary—the abolitionist, the gospel missionary, the free trader, the peace man, the temperance man—he could not believe that the truths, arguments, and appeals, of which he was the bearer, could fail to strike in all who heard them the same fire that blazed in bosoms fervid as his own.
Morley compares Gladstone's fervor for his causes to that of other great missionaries, emphasizing his belief in the power of truth and persuasion.
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I am trying to feel my way through the most difficult problem, the most difficult situation that a responsible Government can have to face.
If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.
No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.
The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
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