John Morley: “But with them the absolute authority on which they leaned was real and…”

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But with them the absolute authority on which they leaned was real and most potent; with him it was a shadow.

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Morley contrasts Turgot's reliance on a shadow of authority with the real power of the National Assembly and the Convention.

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The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.

We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.

There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.

Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.

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John Morley: “But with them the absolute authority on which they leaned was real and most potent; with him it was a shadow.”