John Morley: “He strives like an athlete all his life long, and then when he comes to the end of his striving, he has what is meet.”

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.

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.

The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?