Childers occurred to me as an administrator of eminent capacity and conciliatory in his modes of action; his mind would be open on the grave subjects treated by the Commission, which did not appear to me to be even for Lord Cardwell matters of committal, but simply of public policy to be determined by public advantage.
Morley praises Childers for his administrative skills and open-mindedness on critical issues.
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Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
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.
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.
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