Essays and Biographies, Vol. 3 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Essays and Biographies, Vol. 3 Courtenay's talents and knowledge. For example, we are told that it is a remarkable circumstance, familiar to those who are acquainted with history, but suppressed by the new Whigs, that the liberal poli ticians of the seventeenth century and the greater part of the eighteenth, never extended their liberality to the native Irish, or the professors of the ancient religion. What schoolboy of fourteen is ignorant of this remarkable circumstance? What Whig, new or old, was ever such an idiot as to think that it could be suppressed Really we might as well say that it is a remarkable circumstance, familiar to people well read in history, but carefully suppressed by the Clergy of the Established Church, that in the fifteenth cen tury England was in communion with Rome. 7c are tempted to make some remarks on another passage, which seems to be the peroration of a speech intended to have been spoken against the Reform Bill but we forbear. We doubt whether it will be found that the memory of Sir William Temple owes much to Mr. Courtenay's researches. Temple is one of those men whom the world has agreed to praise highly without knowing much about them, and who are therefore more likely to lose than to gain by a close examination. Yet he is not without fair pretensions to the most honourable place among the statesmen of his time. A few of them equalled or surpassed him in talents, but they were men of no good repute for honesty. A few may be named whose patriotism was purer, nobler, and more disinterested than his, but they were men of no eminent ability. Morally, he was above Shaftes bury intellectually, he was above Russell. 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.