John Morley: “That is not only a great ethical, but a great political law, and we shall reap a sour and sorry harvest if it is…”

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

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.