Excerpt from Protestant Principles: Exemplified in the Parliamentary Orations of Royal Dukes, Right Rev. Prelates, Noble Peers, and Illustrious Commoners; With the Constitutional Declarations of Irish Protestants; Against the Roman Catholic Claims, to Which Is Prefixed an Address to the Pro Respecting one point, Sir, as connected with the subject of the following pages, I must be permitted to observe, that your recent sacrifice of influence, power, and high station, on the altar of public principle, and of political con sistency, is an example not less of patriotic disinterestedness, than of conscientious feeling, which transcendently contributes to immor talize your exalted repute - to emblazon your hallowed fame; It was, heretofore, the oppro brium of public men, that in the pursuit of private advantage, they too frequently lost sight of principles, 'and abandoned their own counsels when no longer compatible with their interests. Recent events have disproved the calumny, so far at least as those British States men, the uncompromising advocates of Con stitutional Protestantism, are concerned; they having demonstrated to the world more noble motives of action, and more honourable princi ples of conduct. Cari sunt liberz', propmquz, familiares; 3ed omnes omnium caritates patria una complewa est. 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.