Excerpt from The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of Lords and Commons Mr. Pitt, when a boy at Eton, was the pride and boast of the school. Dean Bland, the master, valued himself on having so bright a scholar, and showed him to his friends, and to everybody, as a, prodigy. 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.