You are lax in the wrong place, and scrupulous in the wrong place.

As judges, you break through the law for the sake of a supposed convenience.

As legislators, you will not admit any fact without such technical proof as it is rarely possible for legislators to obtain." [401] This reasoning was not and could not be answered.

The Commons were evidently flushed with their victory in the argument, and proud of the appearance which Somers had made in the Painted Chamber.

They particularly charged him to see that the report which he had made of the conference was accurately entered in the journals.