The Edinburgh Review Or Critical Journal For October 1829january 1830

Author : Thomas Babington Macaulay
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780266455967
Total Pages : 604 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (559 download)

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Download or read book The Edinburgh Review, Or Critical Journal, Vol. 51 written by Thomas Babington Macaulay and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal, Vol. 51: For April July, 1830 In these circumstances - beingcivilians ourselves - and Scotch men - being also somewhat disposed, from consistency, to main tain our original Opinion, and called on, as lovers of fair play, to take the part which seems least provided with defenders - but above all, being firmly convinced that it is the just and the right part, and that it can be triumphantly and unanswerably proved to be so, with no great trouble, - we have felt ourselves called on to buckle on our armour once more in this cause, and now proceed fearlessly to the field, to make it good against all opponents. The proofs which we are prepared to produce, might, no doubt, have been more numerous, if this attempt to unsettle public opinion had been made at an earlier period, when witnesses were alive, and documents accessible that have since disap peared. But we are in no fear of the result, even as the case stands; and unprovided as we were, comparatively, for this nu expected granting of a new trial, we have yet been enabled to collect such evidence as we feel confident will ensure us an una nimous verdict from the country, on which we now put our selves. The most natural course, we think, for us to follow, is first of all to make out our own case, without any reference to that of our opponents - to lay first before our readers, in one plain and unbroken series, the grounds upon which Mr Clerk's claim to the merit of this discovery seems to us to be incontest abl y established, and then to consider the pretensions which have been respectively advanced by his competitors. Before doing this, however, it may be proper to dispose of a preliminary matter, which has been revived, we think somewhat unnecessarily, in the recent discussions, and seems to admit of a very summary adjustment. 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.