Henry Grattan

Excerpt from Henry Grattan: A Historical Study I suppose my readers would like to hear? Must I think of them rather than of Grattan P Of course not. His tory loses all value if so dealt with and it is history we are dealing with, not present or party politics. The times of which we are to think have passed for nearly a hundred years. Of all the busy brains and hearts throbbing then within the four seas of Ireland, I suppose that not one throbs now. Let us then look back on those times with historic calmness. Let us forget ourselves for an hour. Let us hush the clam orous present. Let us try to make the Dead Past live again. Let us seek truth, not ammunition for party warfare. Thus shall History give us its lesson and thus, I trust, shall we obtain distinct ideas of the chief events in the life, and the chief lineaments in the character, of henry grattan. 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.