I have had in my days a good deal to do with experts of one kind and another, and I assure you that I do not think an expert is at all the worse when he gets a candid-minded and reasonably well trained amateur.
Morley shares his belief that experts benefit from the insights of well-informed amateurs.
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There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.
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.
An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.
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