Lord John backs me most cordially and well, but it is no small thing to get a cabinet to give up one and a half or two millions of revenue at a time when all the public passion is for enormous expenditure, and in a case beset with great difficulties.
Morley discusses the challenges of persuading the cabinet to reduce revenue amidst public demand for spending.
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But they were barren of any institutions by which the country could be governed and kept in prosperity for the future.”(166) This is a statement of the case that biographer and historian alike should ponder.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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