From this body there has never on any occasion within my memory proceeded the impulse that has prompted, and finally achieved, any of the great measures which in the last half century have contributed so much to the fame and happiness of England.
Morley critiques the lack of initiative from a certain body in driving significant reforms in England's history.
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It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
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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