Are we to suppose for a minute that men of this great station and authority and responsibility are going to issue a lettre de cachet for A.B., C.D., or E.F., without troubling themselves whether that lettre de cachet is wisely issued or not?
Morley questions the authority's decision-making process regarding deportations, emphasizing the need for careful consideration.
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People still believe that Russian diplomats are particularly crafty and clever, full of artifices and stratagems, but that is not the case.
They might learn how the true gentleman speaks of one whom he cannot but admit to have devoted a long life to the search of truth, and allow to have sacrificed every personal prospect to the promulgation of that which appeared to him as…
Yet he had prepared this document for the very purpose of tempting France into a declaration of war.
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.
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