Upon the whole, he argued, it was not too much to say that for practical purposes the Lords had destroyed the work of the House of Commons, unexampled as that work was in the time and pains bestowed upon it.
Morley argues that the House of Lords effectively nullified the significant work done by the House of Commons.
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But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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