Daniel Oconnell A Lecture Etc

Author : Wendell Phillips
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333424008
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (24 download)

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Download or read book Daniel O'connell written by Wendell Phillips and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-08-31 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Daniel O'connell: A Lecture Ladies and Gentlemen, - I am to talk to you of o'connell - Daniel o'connel!, the champion of Irish Catholic citizenship, and the great example of modern agitation. I originally chose o'connell as the sub jaet of a Lyceum lecture because he represented, better than any other 'man of the century, this modern element in constitutional government agitation. You know Sir Robert, Peel defined agitation to be the marshaling of the conscience of a. Nation to mould its laws and ap peal to the thought and the principle of a community to reach indi rectly its ballot-bearing classes. It is an old word this, with a new meaning, and it plays a large part in the constitutional progress of the English race. You may trace it, indeed, back to the days of Cromwell and the pamphlets of the civil war that formed the library of George III., and you can follow it down through the age of De Foe, the author of Robinson Crusoe, the first great Englishman since the Re bellion that ung a pamphlet at that little coterie of first cousins that used to be called the House of Commons, and then in a narrow and to a certain extent a superficial example, you may find it in Wilberforce, who, over Parliament, and in despite of Parliament, by leaning back on the religious purpose of Great Britain, broke three millions of chains, and went up to God, as Lamartine says, with eight hundred thousand broken fetters in his hands, as an evidence of a life well spent. But this was a superficial, and, to a certain extent, a limited example. 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."