John Morley: “After all, this absence of a sense of proportion is what, more than any other one thing, makes a man a wretched…”

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.

Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?

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.