John Morley: “It is a question of measures then: can we by any measures materially mend the position of the party for an impending…”

True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.

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.

People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.