John Morley: “If he does so, the Irish party will be kept together, the honourable alliance with Gladstonian liberals maintained…”

Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.

The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.

What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.

But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.