John Morley: “My wish is as regards Ireland, in this hour of her peril and her hope, to leave nothing undone by which to give heart…”

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.

True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.

They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…

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