The glitter of the prize might have tempted a man of schoolboy ambition, but Lord Hartington was too experienced in affairs not to know that to be head of a group that held the balance was, under such equivocal circumstances, far the more substantial and commanding position of the two.
Morley discusses Lord Hartington's strategic understanding of political power dynamics during a tumultuous time.
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Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.
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.
We ought to be able to separate in thought the question of the grounds and evidence for a given dogma being true, from the distinct and purely historic question of the social and intellectual conditions which made men accept it for true.
I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.
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