Download or read book The Home and Foreign Review, 1864, Vol. 4 (Classic Reprint) written by and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-12 with total page 792 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Home and Foreign Review, 1864, Vol. 4 The book is exceedingly difficult to review, because hardly any thing can be said of Mr. Gladstone's proposals which he has not previously said of them himself. He has laid bare to us the processes of reasoning and investigation, - the first idea ma turing gradually into the full-blown conviction. He has stated, analysed, refuted all the arguments against him. He has turned his pr0posals round on every side, and looked at them in every light, until the reader or listener - carried away by the mixture of so much subtlety and so much candour - surrenders his mind to the influence of a man who seems to have foreseen, anticipated, and surmounted more objections to his own plans than the most determined and ingenious antagonist would ever have thought it possible to suggest. In two of these speeches the financial statement of 1853, and the speech On the extension of the In come Tax to Charities - Mr. Gladstone undoubtedly put forth the whole powers of his mind, and exhausted the whole resources of his eloquence: in the first, to force an Income Tax on an unwilling House of Commons; in the second, to extort from an assembly which he well knew had already decided against him the tribute of an involuntary admiration, and of a con viction which some of the most prejudiced of his hearers found it impossible to withhold. Every speech in this volume, how ever, deserves study from those who wish to learn the art of addressing with success an assembly like the House of Com mons. We may read and admire the speeches of the great orators of the earlier part of the century; but the style and man ner suited to the present day can no more be extracted from them than from the orations of Cicero. Mr. Gladstone's treat ment of every subject is essentially modern: it catches and pre serves the tone Of the days in which we live, and shows us at least one style which has been crowned with the most complete success. The advantage, however, after all, of possessing these monuments of splendid eloquence is not so great 'as it seems. 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.