Walter Bagehot: “Hardly any contrived constitution possesses a machinery for modifying its secondary house so delicate, so flexible, and…”

But the Jewish advantage never did so; beginning in religion, contrary to a thousand analogies, it remained religious.

He could have found the truth as a statesman just as he found it when a judge; but he never did find it.

They are solely concerned with his attractiveness as a candidate; they need not regard his efficiency as a ruler.

But as soon as the House met, Lord Thurlow became the greatest.