William Ewart Gladstone

Prime Minister and author, 1809-1898

Cited as Gladstone. — 16 quotations

My decided preference is for the fourth and last of these alternatives.

The eternal laws, such as the heroic age apprehended them.

Reformers . . . apprehensive for their lives.

Both . . . were viewed askance by authority.

During this notable decade of years.

Much as I differ from him concerning an essential part of the historic basis of religion.

Sentiment of disfavor against its ally.

A society lacerated and dismembered.

Evolution is to me series with development.

The field of Greek mythology . . . the favorite sporting ground of the exclusivists of the solar theory.

The Puritans or extreme Protestants.

Near the island lay on one side the jaws of a dangerous narrow.

To analyze the crisis in its Anglican rather than in its Romeward aspect.

A sum in arithmetic wherein a flaw discovered at a particular point is ipso facto fatal to the whole.

The gorgeous and imposing figures of his [Homer's] theanthropic sytem.

Theology is ordered knowledge; representing in the region of the intellect what religion represents in the heart and life of man.