EPSILON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH YPOGEGRAMMENI~}.
{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER DELTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER RHO~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA AND YPOGEGRAMMENI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}? {~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH PSILI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~}, {~GREEK SMALL LETTER MU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ETA WITH OXIA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER EPSILON~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER NU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER IOTA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER ALPHA WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER TAU~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMEGA~} {~GREEK SMALL LETTER KAPPA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON WITH OXIA~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER PI~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER OMICRON~}{~GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA~}.

AESCH. _Eum._, 74-128.

Turn not faint of heart. What doest thou? Let not weariness
overcome thee.

I

(M190) After the general election of 1874, Mr. Gladstone resolved not
again to offer himself as candidate for Greenwich, and in 1878 he formally
declined an invitation from the liberals in that constituency. At the end
of the year it was intimated to him that he might have a safe seat in the
city of Edinburgh without a contest. In January 1879, more ambitious
counsels prevailed, and it was resolved by the liberal committee of
Midlothian, with Lord Rosebery in the front, and amid infinite resolution,
enthusiasm, and solid sense of responsibility, that Mr. Gladstone should
be invited to contest the metropolitan county of Scotland. Mr. Adam, the
Scotch whip, entered into the design, Lord Wolverton approved, and Lord
Granville sent Adam a letter assenting. The sitting member was Lord
Dalkeith, eldest son of that Duke of Buccleuch who had been Mr.
Gladstone's colleague in Peel's cabinet nearly forty years before, and who
had left it in the memorable December of 1845. Parties had always been
closely balanced, although the tories had held their own pretty firmly,
and only two contests had been fought for forty years. The Midlothian tory
was described to Mr. Gladstone as of the hardest and narrowest type, and
the battle was therefore sure to be fierce. Some of the voters, however,
told the canvassers that they would no longer support ministers. "If the
government continues much longer," the