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Excerpt from The Rochesterian, Vol. 2: Selected Writings
In the year 1780 there was a parliamentary election in Bristol, then the second city in England; and Edmund Burke, who had been its representative for six years, came forward as a candidate for re-election. The address which he made on that occasion has always had a strange fascination for me, though it is not his masterpiece. Martineau described it as the noblest speech. Ever addressed to an English audience, and Romilly alluded to it as perhaps the finest piece of oratory in our language. To me it seems something like the gospel of conscientious conviction in contest with popular passion. 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.
