John Morley: “I hear no challenges upon that statement, for I think it is generally and deeply felt that without the agitation the…”

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

With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.

All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.