EEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}
{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA WITH PERISPOMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER LAMDA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER UPSILON WITH PERISPOMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}."--HERODOTUS iv. 150.

"I am too old, O king, and slow to stir; so bid thou one of the
younger men here do these things."

A member of the great government of 1868, in a letter to one of his
family, gave an account of the final meeting of the cabinet:--

_Feb. 17, 1874._--I doubt--he says--whether I ever passed a more
eventful evening than yesterday. The whole cabinet was assembled.
We resolved after full discussion of pros and cons, and some
slight difference of opinion, to resign at once. After which came
the startling announcement that Gladstone would no longer retain
the leadership of the liberal party, nor resume it, unless the
party had settled its differences. He will not expose himself to
the insults and outrages of 1866-8, and he has a keen sense of the
disloyalty of the party during the last three years. He will sit
as a private member and occasionally speak for himself, but he
will not attend the House regularly, nor assume any one of the
functions of leader. He does this not from anger, but because he
says that it is absolutely necessary to party action to learn that
all the duties and responsibilities do not rest on the leaders,
but that followers have their obligation