But we have soldiers, and soldiers should have military education as well as red coats, and be led by properly qualified officers, instead of Lord Nincompoop's youngest sons.

As it is in the army, so it is in the State.
Places given away, here and there, to incompetent heads; nobody being responsible, no unity of idea and purpose anywhere--the individual interest always in the way of the general good.

There is a noble heart in our people, strong enough if once roused, to work out into light and progression, and correct all these evils.

Robert is a good deal struck by the generous tone of the observations of the French press, as contradistinguished from the insolences of the Americans, who really are past enduring just now.

Certain of our English friends here in Florence have ceased to associate with them on that ground.