May divine protection and favour strengthen the wisdom and mutual goodwill that are needed, for the achievement of a task as glorious as was ever committed to rulers and subjects in any State or Empire of recorded time.
Morley invokes a sense of divine guidance for the rulers and subjects in their shared responsibilities within the Empire.
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This was a complete falsification of a whole set of our national promises.
Could ministers justify abandonment, without far stronger evidence than they then possessed that they could not govern the Transvaal peaceably?
An Indian gentleman has been placed on the Council of the Viceroy--not an everyday transaction.
But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
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