He [Mr

Grote] seems to think that the reliable chronology of Greece begins before its reliable history. Gladstone, Oxford E ays (1857), p. 49. She [the Church) has now a direct command, and a reliable influence, over her own institutions, which was wanting in the middle ages. J. H. Newman , Lectures and E ays on University Sub[jects (ed. 1859), p. 302. Above all, the grand and only reliable security, in the last resort, against the despotism of the government, is in that case wanting - the sympathy of the army with the people. J. S. Mill , Representative Government, xvi. The sturdy peasant has become very well accustomed to that spectacle, and regards the said lord as his most reliable source of trinkgelds and other pecuniary advantages.