They showed that neither remedial measures nor repressive measures had made even the fleeting shadow of an impression on the tenacious sentiment of Ireland, or on the powerful organisation that embodied and directed it.
Morley emphasizes the resilience of Irish sentiment despite various governmental measures over the years.
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Can wool repair The colours that it lost when soaked with dye?
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.
Happy the man who from out the floods has fled the storm and found the haven; happy too is he who has surmounted toil and trouble.—Bacchae, 902-5.
If they, situated exactly as we are, decline to join, we are not bound single-handed to make up the deficiencies of the rest.
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