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Slow sometimes to go in, she is slower yet to come out, and if she had then held her hand, the course of the revolution and the fate of Europe would in all likelihood have been widely different.
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John Morley
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gutenberg.orgJohn Morley: “Slow sometimes to go in, she is slower yet to come out, and if she had then held her hand, the course of the revolution…”
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He reflects on the potential different outcomes of the revolution had England chosen not to intervene.
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