The effect of the bill was not impaired, perhaps it was even heightened; for it convinced the public that its author meant earnest and vigorous business, and the air was instantly alive with the thrill of battle.
Morley reflects on the public's perception of a political bill and its author, emphasizing the excitement surrounding political battles.
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This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
If the idea was the direct gift of heaven, the policy was due to the sagacity and mother-wit of the great ecclesiastical statesmen.
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