Author: Thomas HolcroftPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780332180687
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 54
Book Description
Excerpt from A Letter the Right Honourable William Windham, on the Intemperance and Dangerous Tendency of His Public Conduct My purpose in this public address is not to write a libel, or to display my talents for satire. It has a more worthy meamngi It is to warn you and the nation against the effervescence of your passions. The intemperance of public men is tremendously awfulatall times; but, when it plunges millions into all the miseries of war, it rises into inxexpressible horror. 'it is strange that, from real benevolence of intention, the mischiefs which'fable ascribes to fiends should be the re sult yet this apparent paradox has, of late, been too repeatedly and too woefully proved. You, Sir, and that extrordinary man, Mr. Burke, whose kind but erroneous heart, whose splendid but ill employed talent-s, have led you astray, are among the examples. 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.