On the whole, I find myself free to confess, and without reluctance to admit, that the English escaped from a wretched and discreditable muddle, not without harm and damage, but perhaps in the best possible manner.
Morley acknowledges the complexities and challenges faced by the English during a tumultuous period, suggesting a sense of relief despite the difficulties.
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But as I read it, as I listen to serious Indian experts with large experience, it all sounds estrangement and alienation even though it be no worse than superficial.
Turgot was one of the men to whom good government is a religion.
Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
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