Synopsis
Book may have numerous typos, missing text, images, or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1856. Excerpt: ... 106 HBNET GBATTAN. Speeches of the Right Honourable Henry Grattan, with Observations. The whole comprising a Brief Review of the most Important Political Events in the History of Ireland. Vol. I. 8vo. 1813. At some of the most distinguished foreign places of resort for travellers, there is kept what is called an Album, a book in which there is permission for any stranger, but a particular desire for every illustrious one, to inscribe his name, together with any observations expressive of the manner in which his mind is affected by the peculiarities of the place. In proportion to the number of names and contributions of such eminent persons the book will become an interesting repository for the inspection of the travelling visitants of future times. It may be allowed to regard the permanent literature of a country somewhat in the light of such a receptacle and repository; and it is much to be desired that all the very first-rate minds, in the course of their brief sojourn on the planet, could be induced to make a deliberate and somewhat carefully prepared contribution to this accumulation. It is peculiarly desirable that this could be exacted from men who have displayed eminent genius and comprehension as the conductors, or the censors of the conductors, of human affairs on the great scale. If they would write directly on those concerns, they might make (we are supposing the writers honest as well as able) such a representation of them as would ensure to all future time some enlightened and most instructive spaces in history. Or if they would write on more general subjects, they would do it with all the advantage of having ready for a thousand different applications the intellectual results, acquired by intense speculation exercised on a world of facts during the time those facts wer...
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