John Morley: “The fact that this consideration is so trite and obvious does not prevent it from being an essential element in the…”

Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.

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.

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