John Morley: “Would not the consequence of such professions and promises be either…”

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Would not the consequence of such professions and promises be either the premature exhaustion of her means, or a collapse in the day of performance?

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He warns that making grand promises without the means to fulfill them could lead to failure.

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The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.

The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.

This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.

Yet they had certainly no less value and truth than they ever had, and perhaps were more needed than ever in face of the present chaos of opinion.

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