Walter Bagehot: “But the unsystematic and casual arrangement of our public offices is not more striking than their difference of…”

The progress of the military art is the most conspicuous, I was about to say the most SHOWY, fact in human history.

The moderate people of every party must combine to support the Government which, on the whole, suits every party best.

He gave an excellent moral example to his contemporaries, but he is an instance of those whose good dies with them, while their evil lives after them.

But, above all things, they were frightened of 'the world;' the spectacle of nature filled them with awe and dread.