John Morley: “So they are, in numbers; but it is fatally idle to say that this infinitesimal fraction does not count.”

An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.

To stint Ireland in power which might be necessary or desirable for the management of matters purely Irish, would be a great error; and if she was so stinted, the end that any such measure might contemplate could not be attained.

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.

But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.