Never let it be forgotten that there is scarcely a single moral action of a single man of which other men can have such a knowledge, in its ultimate grounds, its surrounding incidents, and the real determining causes of its merits, as to warrant their pronouncing a conclusive judgment upon it.
Morley emphasizes the complexity of moral judgments and the limitations of human understanding in assessing actions.
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Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
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.
Can wool repair The colours that it lost when soaked with dye?
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
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