But there is no question of his being less saintly than the parsonages believed; he was not a saint at all; and not very attractive even as a sinner.

He was no more a martyr for being burned than Crippen for being hanged.
Cobbett was defeated because the English people was defeated.

After the frame-breaking riots, men, as men, were beaten: and machines, as machines, had beaten them.

Peterloo was as much the defeat of the English as Waterloo was the defeat of the French.

Ireland did not get Home Rule because England did not get it.