"Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence."
— Absence

January 1, 1970

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Lord John Russell, Address to the Electors of the City of London (April 6, 1859). Phrase used by Lord Brougham. Quoted by Chenier in one of his tragedies. Idea used by Henry Labouchère in Truth, Feb. 11. 1886, and by Earl Granville, Feb. 21, 1873. Lady Brownlow, Reminiscences of a Septuagenarian.