Excerpt from Letters Literary and Theological of Connop Thirlwall, Late Lord Bishop of St. David's I dissented from nearly every word he said before he had uttered ten sentences I set him down as the best speaker I had ever. Heard, and I have never since heard any one whom I placed above him. This is the testi mony of no mean judge. His eloquence it is true, was not of that kind which appeals to the passions, or stirs the enthusiasm of the multitude; it was of that far higher order, which disdaining the artifices of rhetoric and never condescending to inflame popular prejudices, yet glows with the fire of an earnest conviction, lays bare the sophistry of the special pleader, and crushes with splendid irony the pretender to knowledge or the hasty, hot-headed partisan, who can see only one side of a question. 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.