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The fulminations of the church did not extinguish these modest centres of light and knowledge, but they cast a creeping blight upon them.
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John Morley
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Morley comments on the resilience of educational institutions in Ireland despite opposition from the Church.
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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.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
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