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Unluckily, the stubborn impulses of defiance that came naturally to his temperament were aroused to their most violent pitch and swept all calculations of policy aside.
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John Morley
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Morley reflects on the intense emotions that can override rational political calculations.
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There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.
What I endeavoured to show was that King George III., without changing his opinion of the justice of his war against the colonies, was obliged to give it up on account of a change of public opinion, and was not open to blame for so doing.
This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
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