It is related, by steady and uncontroverted tradition, that the Paradise Lost was at first a tragedy, and, therefore, amongst tragedies the first hint is properly to be sought.
You may be sure of it; and this mighty Union will be shaken by that very principle of foreign interference which you silently let be established as an uncontroverted rule for the despots of the earth.
It was the era of uncontroverted despotism, which, with sacrilegious arrogance, claimed the title of divine rank; and mankind advanced slowly in progress, because it was not conscious of its own aim.
The uncontroverted and universal practice of all nations in all generations, is, to employ all subjects in the case of necessary just defence.
What may fitly be done here is to state the uncontroverted and dominant facts of the situation as it stands in the autumn of 1897.
