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To dissolve would have been a daring act, an appeal from a shuffling parliament to an unawakened people.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “To dissolve would have been a daring act, an appeal from a shuffling parliament to an unawakened people.”
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Morley describes the boldness required to dissolve parliament and appeal directly to the public, highlighting the political risks involved.
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Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
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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