Letters of Lord Acton to Mary, Daughter of the Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone

by Baron John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton

[[86]] Lightfoot.

[[87]] Sir James Paget, the great surgeon.

[[88]] By Robert Wallace, afterwards M.P. for East Edinburgh. The definition, "trust in the people, tempered by prudence," was laid down by Mr. Gladstone himself in a speech at Oxford in 1877.

[[89]] Of Liberty.

[[90]] On the Peace Preservation Bill.

[[91]] Mr. Brand, afterwards Lord Hampden.

[[92]] Carlyle's.

[[93]] See page [40].

[[94]] John K. Ingram, Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin, and author of the article on Political Economy in the Encyclopædia Britannica.

[[95]] Mr. Gladstone fell on the ice as he entered the gardens of Downing Street, and cut open the back of his head.