By judiciously waiving an undoubted legal claim, we not only do an act which the understood principles of modern liberty tend to favour and almost require, but we soothe ruffled minds and tempers, and what is more, we strengthen the case and claim of the church to be respected as a religious body....
Morley advocates for waiving legal claims to promote harmony and respect for the church.
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All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
What I wish to insist upon is, not that that system was good, but that the statesman who undertook to overthrow it, should have had something to put in its place.
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
Do not weary or fret or nag him with your superior wisdom.
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