Ireland must be in an awful state, or else the radical members of the cabinet would never have assented to such unanswerable evidence that the liberal party could not govern Ireland without resort to that arbitrary force which their greatest orators had so often declared to be no remedy.
Morley critiques the inability of the Liberal party to govern Ireland without resorting to coercive measures, reflecting on the political climate of the time.
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Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
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