John Morley: “I am sick of all the retrograde commonplaces about the weakness of concession to violence and so on.”

But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.

No: not at all; because there is so much, I will not say of random variety, but there is so much independent use of mind upon the facts that we have to deal with, that I listen with endless edification and instruction.

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

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.