My Lords, your House yet stands,--it stands as a great edifice; but let me say, that it stands in the midst of ruins,--in the midst of the ruins that have been made by the greatest moral earthquake that ever convulsed and shattered this globe of ours.
Burke describes the current state of the House of Lords amidst the chaos of societal upheaval.
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