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History hardly shows such revolutionary doctrinaires anywhere as the whig and tory statesmen who tried to regenerate Ireland in the middle of the nineteenth century.
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John Morley
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Morley critiques the Whig and Tory statesmen of the 19th century for their revolutionary yet misguided attempts to reform Ireland.
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