CONTENTS. PAGE. Speech delivered at a Dinner given on Dinas Isl- and, in the Lake of Killarney, on Mr. Phillips' Speech delivered at an aggregate Meeting of the Roman Catholics of the County and City of Petition referred to in the preceding Speech, drawn by Mr. Phillips at the request of the Ro- The Address to H. R. H. the Princess of Wales, Speech in the case of Connaghton v. Dillon deliv- ered in the County Court-house of Rosommon 133 Speech of Mr. Phillips in the case of Creighton v. Speech of Mr. Phillips at a meeting of the gentle- men, clergy, freeholders, and other inhabitants of the County of Sligo, for the purpose of taking into consideration an Address of Condolence to Letter of Mr. Phillips to George IV. October 6th, ૨૬ 228 PREFACE: BY JOHN FINLAY, ESQ. THE Speeches of PHILLIPS are now, for the first time, offered to the world in an authentic form. So far as his exertions have been hitherto developed, his admirers, and they are innumerable, must admit, that the text of this volume is an acknowledged reference, to which future criticism may fairly resort, and from which his friends must deduce any title which the speaker may have created to the character of an orator. The interests of his reputation impose no necessity of denying many of those imperfections which have been imputed to these productions. The value of all human exertion is comparative; and positive excellence is but a flattering designation, even of the best products of industry and mind. There is, perhaps but one way by which we could avoid all possible defects, and that is, by avoiding all possible exertion. The very fastidious, and the very uncharitable, may too often be met with, in the class of the indolent; and the man of talent is generally most liberal in his censure, whose industry has given him |
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