We may be sure that he would not have troubled himself to read a line of that very dull and long pamphlet of which he had to make himself master before he could venture to stir in the matter, had not the road of Opposition been open to him in that direction.

But what exertion will not a politician make with the view of getting the point of his lance within the joints of his enemies' harness?
Frank made his speech, and made it very well.

It was just the case for a lawyer, admitting that kind of advocacy which it is a lawyer's business to practise.

The Indian minister of the day, Lord Fawn's chief, had determined, after much anxious consideration, that it was his duty to resist the claim; and then, for resisting it, he was attacked.

Had he yielded to the claim, the attack would have been as venomous, and very probably would have come from the same quarter.