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I do not remember a single good measure recommended by opponents, which we have declined to adopt (or indeed any good measure which they have recommended at all).
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John Morley
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Morley claims that he cannot recall any beneficial measures suggested by their opponents that they chose not to implement.
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There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.
My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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