Excerpt from Prince Albert's Golden Precepts: Or the Opinions and Maxims of His Royal Highness; The Prince Consort; Selected From His Addresses, Etc; Some How for the First Time Collected, and Carefully Arranged The aim of the compiler of the present volume has been to collect from all the speeches and addresses delivered by his Royal Highness every passage which could stand alone, as embodying distinct thoughts, or reflections of general application, or which appeared interest ing, as expressing an opinion or personal feeling of their illustrious author. His career was one rather of good deeds than many words. Its record will be best found in the ever-extending influences of his public labours; but if the occasions on which he clothed his ideas in language were few, his addresses abound in passages which Englishmen would not willingly let die. These have been carefully selected and arranged, Without reference to the time at which they were Spoken, with the view to give the volume, as far as the nature of the matter would allow, the varied character of a book of table-talk; and thus to present a faithful minia ture of his mind. 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.