John Morley: “But they provoked a host of bitter and irreconcilable enemies, while they raised up no corresponding host of energetic…”

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

The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.

We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.