Assuming that they will be wise, yet I for one am not willing that the House of Commons should hold on sufferance in the nineteenth century what it won in the seventeenth and confirmed and enlarged in the eighteenth.
Morley expresses his reluctance to allow the House of Commons to maintain outdated privileges.
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