For the first time since the union, the Irish case was at last to be pressed in all its force and strength, in every aspect of policy and of conscience, by the most powerful Englishman then alive.
Morley highlights a significant moment in Irish political history where their case was finally presented forcefully.
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Individuals may recover from even serious sickness; it does not appear to be the way with governments.”—Mr.
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.
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.
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
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