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Excerpt from Memoirs of the Right Honourable Henry Lord Langdale, Vol. 2 of 2 It is now necessary to view Lord Langdale as a member of the Hereditary Legislature and on the Bench. It has been seen that he unwillingly accepted the Peerage, and he was little prominent in the House of Lords; as he thought it inconsistent with the dignity or sacredness of the office of judge to meddle with politics. He, therefore, abstained from entering into all political and party questions. The days are happily gone when the judge was selected for his political tendencies, and when, in order to hold his place, which was granted durante bene placito, he found it necessary to carry his partizanship beyond the bounds of strict judicial propriety. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.