I heard you examine your witness from a pedestal, as you felt, of the greatest elevation, endeavouring to press home the monstrous guilt of an Irishman who did not allow moral authority to the Act of Union.
Morley critiques the way witnesses are examined in court, particularly regarding the moral implications placed on Irish individuals.
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Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
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.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
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