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How were the judges authorised to affirm that the Land bill of 1881 had not been a great cause in mitigating the condition of Ireland?
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John Morley
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Morley questions the judges' authority to make claims about the impact of a land bill on Ireland's conditions.
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Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
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.
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