Walter Bagehot: “Language is the tradition of nations; each generation describes what it sees, but it uses words transmitted from the…”

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.

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

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.

If those persons be people of different temperaments, different ideas, and different educations, you have an almost infallible security that nothing, or almost nothing, will be done with excessive rapidity.