They cannot comprehend how a quarrel, to them utterly unintelligible (some even think it discreditable), should be allowed to divide the host in the face of the enemy; and their unity and zeal have been deadened in proportion.
Morley reflects on the inability of the English to understand the complexities of Irish conflicts, which undermines their unity against common challenges.
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Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
Can wool repair The colours that it lost when soaked with dye?
People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
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.
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