It can bark, but it can no longer bite." "The Irish generally," he went on, "were rather superstitious than religious." These.

are delicate distinctions.

"The Bishop of Peterborough must understand," said John Bright on a famous occasion, "that I believe in holy earth as little as he believes in holy water." Elizabeth's Irish policy was to take advantage of local factions, and to maintain English supremacy by setting them against each other.

"The result was hideous.

The forty-five glorious years of Elizabeth were to Ireland years of unremitting wretchedness." Nobody could complain that Froude spared the English Government.