"We despise and abominate the details of partizan warfare, but we now are, as we always have been, decidedly and consc…"

"Even though the East Retford case had never happened, or even though it had been decided in a different way, there oc…"

"The public mind of France had become so excited and perverted by a variety of causes great and small, and of grievanc…"

"The fatal consequences are that Peel, by betraying the precise and specific principle upon which he was brought into …"

"My memory and observation of public affairs are about coeval with that event [the French Revolution]. I was in my nin…"

"There is nothing for which one—at least I—should so much envy as Sir W. Scott as the bold facility with which he seiz…"

"I prefer an ounce of fact to a ton of imagination."

"Croker, it is true, was always going to write a general history of the Revolution... Croker spent a life-time accumul…"

"At a distance of forty years, [it was] the most brilliant scene in the House of Commons during the twenty-three years…"

"To the British Museum. I looked over the Travels of the Duke of Tuscany, and found the passage the existence of which…"