On the record
My ties will be slight to an assembly with whose tendencies I am little in harmony at the present time; nor can I flatter myself that what is called the public out of doors is more sympathetic.
Said by
John Morley
Source
gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “My ties will be slight to an assembly with whose tendencies I am little in harmony at the present time; nor can I…”
Editor's note · Context
Morley expresses his disconnection from the current political assembly and public sentiment.
Share
More from John Morley
What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.
We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.
An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
Other voices in this conversation
