She enters into a campaign which she will not terminate till right is done.” This was a hardly veiled threat to Russia, it was encouragement to Turkey, it was incitement to a war party in Great Britain.
Morley interprets a statement as a veiled threat to Russia and encouragement to Turkey, reflecting the political climate.
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Fitness is henceforth to be the criterion of eligibility.
What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.
How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.
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