Ireland must be in an awful state, or else the radical members of the cabinet would never have assented to such unanswerable evidence that the liberal party could not govern Ireland without resort to that arbitrary force which their greatest orators had so often declared to be no remedy.
Morley critiques the inability of the Liberal party to govern Ireland without resorting to coercive measures, reflecting on the political climate of the time.
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My desire is thoroughly to shake up all the materials of the question.
Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
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