It was ingeniously explained that their confidence in British rule had been destroyed by the Carnarvon surrender; a shopkeeper would not offend his customers for the sake of a Union Jack that no longer waved triumphant in the breeze.
Morley discusses the impact of political events on public confidence in British rule.
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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.
How should we look in the face of the civilised world if we had so turned our back upon our duty and sovereign task?
Inspire him with the desire of pleasing; he will soon know more of the art than all the masters could teach him.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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