John Morley: “Whoever has held the post of minister for any considerable time can never absolutely, unalterably maintain and carry out…”

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.

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

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.