But, at all events, his conception of history rose above merely individual concerns, embraced the successive movements of societies and their relations to one another, and sought the spring of revolutions in the affairs of a community in long trains of preparing conditions, internal and external.
Morley praises Turgot for his broader view of history that encompasses societal movements and conditions.
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People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
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.
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
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