As leave was refused, the bill proposed to be introduced may, perhaps, be thought disentitled to mention here, were it not that the circumstance that proposals for shortening the duration of Parliaments are still occasionally brought forward seems to warrant an account of a few of the arguments by which those who took the leading parts in the debate which ensued resisted it.
"The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860"
Charles Duke Yonge
It was quite fair: I had disentitled myself.
"The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II."
Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson