Random Recollections of the Lords and Commons Volume 2; Second Series - Softcover

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1838 Excerpt: ... 226 CHAPTER XI. CONSERVATIVE SCOTCH AND IRISH MEMBERS. Mr. Pringle--Mr. Serjeant Jackson--Mr. Serjeant Lef'roy--Mr. Emerson Tennent--Colonel Verner. Mr. Pringle, the member for Selkirkshire, is a man of some consideration among the Scotch Conservatives, though comparatively little known in the House. I believe he has no ambition to be considered a parliamentary orator. If the infrequency of his speeches may be held as decisive of the point, then I may convert the proposition I have put hypothetically into one of positive affirmation, and say in so many terms that the honourable gentleman has no desire to possess the reputation of a speaker in the house. I am convinced that, taking one session with another, he does not occupy the attention of the House for two hours, putting all his speeches together, in the course of the six months which each session usually lasts. I should suppose that the average number of his speeches each session, including those he delivers in committees of the whole House, is seven or eight. He is a man of very respectable talents, and is usually listened to with attention by honourable members. If he has no pretensions to vigour or originality of mind, he possesses a clear head, and displays a sound judgment. He has the further merit of being always intelligible: his perceptions are quick, and he evinces considerable talent in placing them in so clear a light before the House, that the dullest and least intellectual M. P. in it cannot fail to understand what he is saying, and to perceive the point to which he wishes to conduct the House. Mr. Pringle's matter is always sensible; nor is he by any means deficient in argumentative power. I do not mean to say that he excels in this respect; I do not mean to say that his argumentative powe...

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