John Morley: “All these are but partial and fragmentary statements, so many narrow glimpses of a great and comprehensive truth.”

Individuals may recover from even serious sickness; it does not appear to be the way with governments.”—Mr.

Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.

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

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.