The bill on which the House of Commons eventually proceeded was a measure, I should suppose, without precedent or parallel, as, on the other hand it was, for the purpose of the hour, and as the work of a government in a decided minority, an extraordinary stroke of parliamentary success.
Morley describes a unique parliamentary bill that was a significant achievement for a minority government.
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An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.
But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.
But the Poet Laureate has written his own song on the hearts of his countrymen that can never die.
I don't myself believe in artful diplomacy; I have no gift for it.
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