In resisting to the uttermost of my power the encroachment of the House of Lords, I acted, as I believe, on the only principle which makes it practicable to defend the true, legitimate, and constitutional powers of that House itself against encroachment from other quarters.
Morley reflects on the importance of defending the constitutional powers of the House of Lords against encroachments.
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The plan for Ireland ought to be produced by the government of the day.
They hope to attract that good will which must, after all, be the real foundation of our prosperity and strength in India.
All alike concerned themselves with its truth or falsehood, with what they counted to be its abstract fitness or unfitness.
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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