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Excerpt from Selected Speeches of the Late Right Honourable the Earl of Beaconsfield, Vol. 1 of 2: Arranged and Edited With Introduction and Explanatory Notes ON giving these volumes to the public, it is my first duty, as it is also my greatest pleasure, to acknowledge the aid which I have received from the friends and colleagues of Lord Beaconsfieldfl To the marquis of salisbury, sir stafford N orthcote, lord rowton, Mr. E. Stanhope, sir philip rose (one of Lord Beaconsfield's executors), and last, but not least, to baron dimsdale, late Member for Hertford, I am indebted in various degrees for assistance in the process of selection, for the revision of the proof sheets, for the communication of many in teresting details, and for the key to Lord Beaconsfield's tactics in more than one Parliamentary campaign. With out these powerful auxiliaries, I could scarcely have presumed to venture on a task of so much difficulty; even with them I am only too conscious how very im. 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.