This is only an illustration of what is now a well-known fact, that revolution was made necessary less by despotism than by privilege on the one side, and by intense political distrust on the other side.
Morley asserts that privilege and political distrust were significant factors leading to revolution.
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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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A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
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