Sir William Harcourt, ever holding stoutly in fair weather and in foul to the party ship, thought the break-up of a great political combination to be so immense an evil, as to call for almost any sacrifices to prevent it.
Morley highlights Sir William Harcourt's commitment to preserving political unity, even at great personal cost.
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If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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.
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