There are no peers in Westminster Hall, there are no judges on the woolsack; but if we concentrate our minds upon the truth of the case as apart from its mere exterior, it is a grander and a more august spectacle than was ever exhibited either in Westminster Hall or in the House of Lords.
Morley contrasts the political spectacle in Westminster with a judicial trial, suggesting its greater significance.
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But we have no right to cast on him any responsibility beyond what is strictly military.
But Turgot was one of those severe and scrupulous souls, to whom a wicked promise does not cease to be degrading by becoming hypocritical.
Is it natural effervescence, or is it deadly fermentation?
The general situation in Egypt had latterly become one in which everything was governed by sheer military violence.
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