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ill any one tell me what there is to venerate in the House of Lords? Will any one tell me when in the great battle of freedom they have been on the side of freedom and justice? Will they tell me when they have not been against it? ... Who will talk of the ripe wisdom of an assembly which resists without courage, and obstructs without straightforwardness; which asserts without approval, and gives way without conviction? ... f we have to consider a second rejection of this Bill the Liberal party will borrow an amendment of the Tory party with a slight variation, and propose, “No treatment of Parliamentary reform is satisfactory which does not include the reform of the hereditary Chamber. (en) |
