Author: John Bright

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-01-10

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9781334961052

Excerpt from Speeches on the Public Affairs of the Last Twenty Years If foresight, then, be an evidence (and there could hardly be better evidence) of the faculty of statesmanship, Mr. Bright is likely to prove himself fully equal to the exigencies of his new position, and to be as successful in building up; as he has-been in pulling down. There is a time to saw, and a time to reap; and the tangled forest of ancient prein dice being now cleared, and a free pathway made through it, we must begin to utilise the trees we have felled, and make them into habitable houses, not leave them as nu sightly wrecks to cumber the way. 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.