Speeches at the Bar and in the Senate (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book Speeches at the Bar and in the Senate (Classic Reprint) written by William Conyngham Plunket and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-25 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Speeches at the Bar and in the Senate When I undertook the task of editing them, I found the general impression, among persons well acquainted with his lordship's career, to be, that it would be impossible to procure reliable reports of any, but a very few, of his great orations. In two of the heat memoirs of him, that in Mr. D. Owen Madden's I related and its Rulers, and that which appeared after his lordship's decease, in the Times newspaper, it was positively asserted, that there were only two or three, that could at all be considered accurate; and that even the best report gave but a dull shadow of his extraordinary eloquence. I can well believe this to be the case. It is the concurrent testimony of the greatest cotemporary critics, and of his rivals as well as his colleagues. It is true too, that the ordinary reports of Hamard and the news papers - like all other reports, in the period before short-hand had been carried to a perfection equal to that of the photograph, are but slow and meagre transcripts. I take it, however, that there is ia trinsic evidence enough to show, that the majority of the speeches which I have printed in this volume, are authentic versions of the very words used by Plunket, on the most memorable occasions that he appeared in public; and that at lent a dozen of them fully sustain his Me. The only credit I claim for my share in the book is, that I have taken some pains in searching and collating, in order to verify, whatever reports I could depend upon, as exhibiting marks of his own revision; or if not, as being the fullest and most careful extant. 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.