I do not think it was a bad plan, but it is no use, if you are making an earnest attempt in good faith at a general pacification, to let parental fondness for a clause interrupt that good process by sitting obstinately tight.
Morley critiques the inflexibility in legislative processes that can hinder genuine efforts for peace and reconciliation.
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If I were going to remain Indian Secretary for some time to come, my every effort would be devoted to an abatement of that enormous amount of writing.
Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.
But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
I think they will commit a great error if they take this course.
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