John Morley: “In a people of bold and martial temper such as are the people of our island, this proved to be a miscalculation.”

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.

If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.

I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.

Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.