John Morley: “In causa facili cuivis licet esse disertum, Et minimae vires frangere quassa valent; Subruere est arces et stantia…”

He was a soldier of infinite personal courage and daring; of striking military energy, initiative, and resource; a high, pure, and single character, dwelling much in the region of the unseen.

What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.

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

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.