“ You know that at your feet is the grave of great cities, for which there is no resurrection—as history tells us that dynasties and aristocracies have passed away, and their name has been known no more for ever. ”

“ Nervous prostration—the too common ailment of all great intellects—has obliged Mr. Bright to retire from office. Men of all parties deplore his sickness, and trust that he will be restored to full health, and be able to serve his country for many years to come. ”

“ Bright had a commercial, middle-class i education, and that is all; and yet there is no scholar who has a more copious, more forcible, and more elegant diction. He is often cited as an example of the uselessness of studying the dead languages. ”

“ If I speak to the people of their rights, and indicate to them the way to secure them—if I speak of their danger to the monopolists of power—am* I not a wise counsellor both to the people and to their rulers? ”

“ Legal biography abounds with instances of men who, from the humblest beginnings, have risen to eminence. Unaided ability succeeds even in politics and statesmanship. In the House of Commons, there are many men who have attained a high social position by their own unassisted industry. There are at this time two exceptionally conspicuous examples of—to adopt a popular phrase—self-made statesmen. ”

“ Bright is not less surprising ; and, as we shall presently remark, not less triumphant. Like Mr. Disraeli, he was not educated or trained for the high service of the State. Unlike Mr. Disraeli, he has not entirely devoted himself to politics, but until lately was engaged in business. Some one suggested to a member of his firm that he was of course only a sleeping partner. “ Sleeping ! Why, he knows everything that goes on, and is an ever-vigilant administrator.” Mr. Disraeli, though not a public school or university man, received a thoroughly classical and comprehensive education ”