Carried, as it has been, by an overwhelming and steady majority through a House of Commons, chosen expressly to speak the feeling of the country on the question, there seems no reason to believe that any fresh appeal to the people would lead to a different result.
Morley reflects on the overwhelming support for a bill in the House of Commons, suggesting public sentiment is clear.
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But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.
Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.
Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.
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