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

Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.

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

A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.

Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.