He was far too comprehensive in his outlook to suppose that the great outburst of material prosperity during the years in which he controlled the exchequer and guided parliament in affairs of money, was wholly and without qualification due to budgets alone.
Morley emphasizes the importance of a broad perspective in understanding economic prosperity beyond just financial policies.
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All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
With a few exceptions, a political speech like the manna in the wilderness loses its savour on the second day.
But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
The omnipotent though not omniscient divinity called public opinion intervened.
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