Go into the length and breadth of the world, ransack the literature of all countries, find if you can a single voice, a single book, in which the conduct of England towards Ireland is anywhere treated except with profound and bitter condemnation.
Morley challenges the narrative of England's conduct towards Ireland, seeking universal condemnation.
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A rendering less apt for this occasion finds favour with some scholars, that true virtue can never be restored to those who have once fallen away from it.
Gladstone protested against the bill as “inequitable, unusual, and unwise,” and it was largely modified in committee.
True merit once resigned, No trick nor feint will serve as well.
It is a case so to speak of “limited liability.” We are bound in honour—you cannot put a legal construction upon it—to see in concert with others that these arrangements are maintained.
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