Under the circumstances, while the duty of the hour evidently was to study the means of possible accommodation, the present aspect of affairs was that of a probable split, independently of the question what course I might individually pursue.
Morley reflects on the political landscape and the potential for division within the government, emphasizing the need for compromise.
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It would be a happy day for the Peace Society that should give the colonies a veto on imperial war.
This is no mere case of barren wrangle and verbal recrimination.
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.
There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
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