Speeches And Addresses In Parliament On The Platform And At The Bar

Author : Alsager Hay Hill
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ISBN 13 : 9781331183594
Total Pages : 506 pages
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Download or read book The Oratorical Year Book for 1865 written by Alsager Hay Hill and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 506 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Oratorical Year Book for 1865: Being a Collection of the Best Speeches Delivered in Parliament, at the Bar, and on the Platform In the present volume, which it is hoped is but the first of a long series, an attempt has been made to reproduce in a compact and popular form all the most conspicuous speeches delivered during the year 1865. Hitherto the addresses of our leading statesmen and orators have only been preserved in the columns of the daily press, or, if spoken in Parliament, in the elaborate and expensive volumes of "Hansard's Debates." To refer to such sources for information is often an inconvenient and expensive process, whilst in the case of the Reports in Parliament a large portion of the volumes in which these speeches appear is necessarily occupied with matters of pure business, possessing but slight interest for the general reader. To bring, therefore, all the best utterances of the time on questions of general interest within the reach of all those who care to possess them, is the first object with which the present work has been undertaken. Apart from the interest which attaches to these collected speeches as specimens of cotemporary eloquence, their value as the most express record of the political and general opinions of the time cannot, it is conceived, be too highly estimated. For purposes of general reference, therefore, as well as of especial study by those to whom public speaking is a part of professional education, the "Oratorical Year Book" should have a peculiar value. Accordingly, in this view it is thought that all the most representative addresses of the year, even where no high standard of oratory may have been attained, will appropriately find a place in such a compilation as the present. With respect to the arrangement adopted in this work, it may be remarked, as to the first division, that in reproducing the Parliamentary eloquence of the time an endeavour has been made to reprint all the most important speeches delivered on the great questions in debate during the session. 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.