To be sure, he has done wonders this session. A mere tongue, without a party and without a character, in an unfriendly audience, and with an unfriendly Press, never did half so much before. As Sydney Smith says, "verily he hath a devil."

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "To be sure, he has done wonders this session. A mere tongue, without a party and without a character, in an unfriendly audience, and with an unfriendly Press, never did half so much before. As Sydney Smith says, "verily he hath a devil."" in the context of "Thomas Macaulay to Macvey Napier (1 September 1838), quoted in Selections from the Correspondence of the Late Macvey Napier, Esq., ed. Macvey Napier (1879), p. 270" to mean that wisdom is timeless.