John Morley: “If he had been otherwise, he knew that he would be falling short in loyalty to the country, and to its chief magistrate…”

Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.

This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.

If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.