I write principally for the purpose of offering you my hearty congratulations on the place you have taken in diplomacy by force of mind and character, and on the services which, in thus far serving the most honourable aims a man can have, you have rendered to liberty and humanity.
Morley expresses his congratulations to a diplomat for their contributions to liberty and humanity.
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With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
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.
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