To nobody in this world, by habit, by education, by experience, by views expressed in political affairs for a great many years past, to nobody is exceptional repression, more distasteful than it is to me.
Morley expresses his deep aversion to exceptional repression, highlighting his values and political stance.
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True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
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.
Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
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