At last the time for speaking, and therefore for formulating my ideas came, and I have spoken according as I believe to be the sense of all the leading men with whom I acted from Peel’s death onwards, and within the sense not only of Lord Macaulay, but of the present Lord Grey.
Morley articulates the moment he felt compelled to express his political ideas, influenced by notable figures.
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But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
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.
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