Those who have read his state papers, and have admired their penetrating force and comprehensive scope, will not misunderstand me when I say that he was, in this respect, a little child; not from defect of vision, but from thorough nobleness of nature.
Morley describes the nobility of a person's nature, comparing their understanding to that of a child.
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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.
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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