But stiff old Loth-to-stoop has taken his line and has passed his word.

His honour, as he holds it, is committed to this announced line of action; and, if the Crown itself should perish before his policy, he will not stoop to change it.

How often you see that in great affairs as well as in small.

How seldom you see a public man openly confessing that he has hitherto all along been wrong, and that he has at last and by others been set right.

Not once in a generation.