THE SPEECHES
OF
HENRY LORD BROUGHAM,
Upon Questions relating to Public Rights, Duties and Interests,
WITH HISTORICAL INTRODUCTIONS;
In Two handsome Volumes, bound in embossed cloth, or law sheep.
CONTENTS.
Military Flogging—Queen Caroline—Libel on the Durham Clergy—
Dissertation on the Law of Libel—Commerce and Manufactures—Agricultural
and Manufacturing Distress—Army Estimates—Holy Alliance—
Slavery—Law Reform—Parliamentary Reform—Education—Poor Laws
— Scotch Parliamentary and Burgh Reform — Scotch Marriage and
Divorce Bill — Establishment of the Liverpool Mechanic's Institute —
Speech on Neutral Rights — Affairs of Ireland — Speech at the Grey
Festival — Change of Ministry in 1834 — Business of Parliament — Maltreatment
of the North American Colonies — Speech on the Civil List —
Privilege of Parliament.
“The period embraced by these two volumes extends over a space of thirty years,
from 1810 to 1840, a most exciting period, during all of which Mr. Brougham, or Lord
Brougham, played a most distinguished part; and upon the character and events of
which he exerted no mean influence.
“In brief, the biographical ligaments which bind together the subjects so ably
handled in these volumes, impart compactness, strength, and beauty to the whole,
and the head of a family who introduces such works to his sons and daughters,
secures to them an inheritance which must endure to them for the whole period of
existence.”
—National Intelligencer.
“Who does not desire to possess all the speeches of this great philanthropist on
the subject of the poor laws, the education of the people, the law of libel, and other
great topics of universal concernment? In the two large volumes before us, all these
proud efforts of human learning, genius, and intellect, are embodied—each speech
being preceded by a historical introduction of the occasion and circumstances under
which it was delivered. No English library will be complete without these volumes.”
—New York Commercial.
“These volumes contain a mine of literary and political wealth strongly characteristic,
both in manner and matter, of this great original genius. The independence,
the vigour, the manliness of thought, which is here displayed, and the stores of
wisdom and learning with which the volumes abound, cannot fail to secure for their
author a more full appreciation than he has in this country especially enjoyed.”
—
Madisonian.
THE ECCLESIASTICAL AND POLITICAL HISTORY
OF THE
POPES OF ROME,
DURING THE SIXTEENTH AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES,
BY LEOPOLD RANKE,
PROFESSOR IN THE UNIVERSITY OF BERLIN;
Translated from the German by Sarah Austin. In Two Volumes.
“To the high qualifications of profound research, careful accuracy, great fairness
and candour, with a constant reference to the genius and spirit of each successive
age, common to the historians of Germany, Mr. Ranke adds the charm of a singularly
lucid, terse and agreeable style.”
—Quarterly Review.
