Excerpt from The Select Speeches of the Right Hon. Henry Grattan: To Which Is Added His Letter on Union Few things are more calculated to give pleasure to those inte rested in the welfare of our country, than the rapid progress which education has made amongst the people within the last few years. In order to meet the demand for works on Ireland, it has been proposed to publish The Irish Library, which will contain a selection from our classic orators and writers -with original Memoirs of our most celebrated countrymen. The undertaking will also comprise re-publications of works meriting preservation, and difficult to be procured. 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.