Excerpt from The British Senate, Vol. 2 of 2: Or, a Second Series of Random Recollections of the Lords and Commons
Usually Mr. Richards' action is tame in the ex treme, while his elocution is feeble and monotonous. He sometimes talks with passable fluency; at other times he stammers and falters, and corrects and recor rects himself at every tenth or twelfth sentence. He has nothing to boast of in the way of genius or originali ty. He is generally dull. If there be tolerable sense in what he says, it is all the credit which can be given him as a Speaker. He is, however, a man of rather ex tensive information. I have on some occasions admired the intimate knowledge which, on the impulse of the moment, and under unexpected circumstances, I have seen him manifest on historical matters.
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.