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Excerpt from Speeches of Edward, Lord Lytton, Vol. 1 of 2: Now First Collected With Some of His Political Writings Hitherto Unpublished and a Prefatory Memoir
My Amendment shall be free from it. My hon. Friend* has referred to a lovely passage in Tasso, and says that I would smear the bowl with sweets that the child may swallow the medicine. No; I present the medicine as it is. He adulterates the medicine with the bitterness of unnecessary gall. Not the least dangerous part Of the agitation out of doors, which it was scarcely worthy Of a distinguished Member of Parliament and a distinguished scholar to countenance, is the attempt of certain persons to disparage the character of this House. Acting as I do with a minority, it might be more consistent with the pas sions of party to connive at that depreciation, and insinuate that it is the fault of the tribunal when we cannot carry our cause. But I say, from the bottom of my heart, that the longer I have lived, and the more familiar I have become with books or with mankind, the more deeply the patriotic spirit and the intellectual eminence of this House of Commons are impressed on my convictions. And during my experience of more than twenty years in the records of your. Proceedings, I can recall no time in which this House was ever more worthy of the confi dence and respect Of the country, whether for the ability which by all sections of Opinion has been displayed, or, as I solemnly believe, for the personal incorruptibility of its Members as a body, or for that zeal for the welfare of the country which, whether you have assailed or supported Ministers, posterity will acknowledge to have been your prevailing motive. It is not at.
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