John Morley: “Bossuet's talk of universal history, which has been so constantly praised, was fundamentally, and in substance, no more…”

For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.

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

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

They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…