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To treat native ministers as mere ciphers and puppets, and then to hope to leave them at the end with authority enough to govern the country by themselves, was pure delusion.
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John Morley
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Morley critiques the unrealistic expectations placed on native ministers in Egypt under British control.
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There lay Ireland,—squalid, dismal, sullen, dull, expectant, sunk deep in hostile intent.
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