May divine protection and favour strengthen the wisdom and mutual goodwill that are needed, for the achievement of a task as glorious as was ever committed to rulers and subjects in any State or Empire of recorded time.
Morley invokes a sense of divine guidance for the rulers and subjects in their shared responsibilities within the Empire.
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If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
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