He took few secondary arguments, but laboured only to hold up to men’s imagination, and to burn into their understanding, the lines of central policy, the shame and dishonour from which it would relieve us, the new life with which it would inspire Ireland, the ease that it would bring to parliament in England.
Morley describes the prime minister's commitment to a significant public cause, highlighting the importance of vision in leadership.
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If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
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.
For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
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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