In the great charter of 1858 Queen Victoria gave you noble assurance of her earnest desire to stimulate the peaceful industry of India, to promote works of public utility and improvement, and to administer the government for the benefit of all resident therein.
Morley highlights Queen Victoria's commitment to improving India through governance and public works.
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If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
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