Excerpt from The Household Book of Irish Eloquence: Containing the Select Speeches of Daniel O'connell, Richard Lalor Sheil, John Philpot Curran, Henry Grattan, Edmund Burke, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Charles Phillips, Robert Emmet, Whiteside, Meagher, McGee England could boast of men of great learning, genius, and power; could enumerate some great names, who won distino tion in the pulpit, at the bar, or in the legislative hall, by dis courses full of learning and classic purity, animated at times by a kind of severe eloquence; but, as England lacked large popular assemblies, as appeals were never made, or, if made, would be lost, where imagination, fancy and vivacity quickened them, where the orator aimed not only to convince the mind, but to sway the feelings, true eloquence was almost unknown. 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.