The wonderful continuity of fine poetry in England for five whole centuries, stretching from Chaucer to Tennyson, always a proof to his mind of the soundness, the sap, and the vitality of our nation and its character.
Morley reflects on the enduring legacy of English poetry, linking it to the vitality of the nation.
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Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.
The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.
My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.
But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.
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