But, subject to the fulfilment of these conditions, my opinion is that we can do it: can frame a budget large enough and palpably beneficial enough, not only to do much good to the country, but sensibly to lift the party in the public view and estimation.
Morley expresses optimism about framing a beneficial budget under certain conditions.
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For this line of contention he was called an “unpatriotic trumpet of disaster,” and other names commonly bestowed on all men in all countries who venture to say that what chances for the hour to be a popular war is a blunder.
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.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
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