John Morley: “If we have committed gross errors, it has been owing to an excess much more than to a defect of professional influence…”

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

People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.

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.

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…