Never had a nation greater advantages from soil and climate, from the talents and dispositions of the people, never was there a more smiling prospect (if we may fall back upon the graceful fiction) from the Alpine tops, even down to the Sicilian promontories, than that which for the moment has been darkly blurred.
Morley expresses optimism about Italy's potential despite its current challenges.
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An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.
We do not know how to leave India, and therefore let us see if we know how to govern it.
I think any man who lays down a firm proposition that all is well, or any man who says that all is ill--either of those two men is probably wrong.
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