but the priest. No shirt collar ever took such a quantity of
starch."

104 See _Saturday Review_, July 29; _Spectator_, June 24, etc.

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105 Ei fu! siccome immobile, etc. First line of Manzoni's ode on the
death of Napoleon.

106 First lord, Earl Russell; foreign secretary, Lord Clarendon;
secretary for war. Earl de Grey; first lord of the admiralty, Duke
of Somerset.

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107 Church's _Letters_, p. 171.

108 Once at Hawarden I dropped the idle triviality that Mr. Pitt, Mr.
Goschen, and a third person, were the three men who had been put
into cabinet after the shortest spell of parliamentary life. (They
were likewise out again after the shortest recorded spell of cabinet
life.) "I don't believe any such thing," said Mr. Gladstone. "Well,
who is your man?" "What do you say," he answered, "to Sir George
Murray? Wellington put him into his cabinet (1828); he had been with
him in the Peninsula." On returning to London, I found that Murray
had been five years in parliament, and having written to tell Mr.
Gladstone so, the next day I received a summary postcard--"Then try
Lord Henry Petty." Here, as far as I make out, he was right.

"It is very unusual, I think," Mr. Gladstone wrote to the prime
minister (Jan. 6, 1866) "to put men into the cabinet without a
previous official training. Lord Derby could not help himself. Peel
put Knatchbull, but that was on political grounds that seemed broad,
but proved narrow enough. Argyll was put there in '52-3, but there
is not the same opportunity for previous training in the case of
peers."

_ 109 Life of Cobden_, ii. p. 232.

_ 110 Life of Sir Charles Murray_, p. 300.

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111 To Sir W. Farquhar, April 4, 1864.

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_ 112 Life of Wilberforce_, ii. pp. 136-46; _Life of Shaftesbury_, ii. p.
404.

113 Pattison's _Tendencies of Religious Thought in England, 1688-1750_.
Reprinted in his _Essays_, vol. ii.

114 See the lines from _Euripides_ at the head of the chapter.

115 In a series of articles published in _Good Words_ in January,
February, March 1868, and reprinted, in volume form the same year.
Reprinted again in _Gleanings_, vol. iii.

_ 116 Gleanings_, iii. p. 41.

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