Category: Biographies
Different types of men.--M. de Talleyrand, the politic man.--Character of the eighteenth century, which had formed him.--Birth, personal description, entry into church.--Causes of revolution.--States-General.--Talleyrand’s influence over clergy; over the decision as to the ins...
Different types of men.--M. de Talleyrand, the politic man.--Character of the eighteenth century, which had formed him.--Birth, personal description, entry into church.--Causes...
2. PART II.Blesses the standard of France at festival of the 14th of July.--Increasing financial distress.--M. de Talleyrand’s views.--Civil constitution of the clergy.--M. de Talleyrand’s...
3. PART III.M. de Talleyrand in London.--Manner and appearance.--Witticisms.--Visit to England.--Lord Grenville refuses to discuss business with him.--Goes to Paris; returns with letter fro...
4. PART IV.Talleyrand supports the extension of the First Consul’s power, based on a principle of toleration and oblivion of the past.--Napoleon attempts peace with England; fails.--Battle...
5. PART V.Comte d’Artois, Lieutenant-General of France.--Treaty of the 23rd of April for the evacuation of France.--Louis XVIII., contrary to M. de Talleyrand’s advice, refuses to accept...
6. PART VI.M. de Talleyrand’s retirement from public affairs during the period which closed with the dethronement of Charles X.--Appearance in the House of Peers on two occasions, to prote...
7. PART I.Mackintosh’s character.--Character of men of his type.--Birth and parentage.--Starts as a physician, fails, and becomes a newspaper writer, and author of a celebrated pamphlet i...
8. PART II.Goes to India.--Pursuits there.--Returns home dissatisfied with himself.--Enters Parliament on the Liberal side.--Reasons why he took it.--Fails in first speech.--Merits as an o...
9. PART III.I have said that Sir James Mackintosh allowed himself to be lured from the strife of politics by the love of letters. And what was the species of learned labour on which his int...
10. PART I.Son of a small farmer.--Boyhood spent in the country.--Runs away from home.--Becomes a lawyer’s clerk.--Enlists as a soldier, 1784.--Learns grammar and studies Swift.--Goes to C...
11. PART II.Starts a paper, by title _The Porcupine_, which he had made famous in America.--Begins as a Tory.--Soon verges towards opposition.--Abandons _Porcupine_ and commences _Register_...
12. PART III.Settles on Long Island.--Professes at first great satisfaction.--Takes a farm,--Writes his Grammar.--Gets discontented.--His premises burnt.--He returns to England, and carries...
13. PART I.Proper time for writing a biography.--Mr. Canning born (1770).--Education at Eton and Oxford.--Early literary performances.--Brought into Parliament by Mr. Pitt.--Politics he es...
14. PART II.Mr. Perceval, Prime Minister.--Lord Wellesley, Minister of Foreign Affairs.--King’s health necessitates regency.--The line taken by Mr. Canning upon it.--Conduct with respect to...
15. PART III.Lord Castlereagh’s death.--Mr. Canning’s appointment as Foreign Secretary.--State of affairs.--Opposition he encountered.--Policy as to Spain and South America.--Commencing popu...
16. PART IV.Mr. Canning’s position.--Altered tone of opposition.--Favour of King.--Death of Duke of York and of Lord Liverpool.--Struggle for the Premiership.--Nomination of Mr. Canning.--S...
17. PART V.One must judge men by a real and not ideal standard of mankind.--Criticisms on Mr. Canning’s conduct.--His faults when in a subordinate position.--His better qualities developed...
18. PART I.Family.--Birth.--Formation of character.--Education at Harrow and Oxford.--Entry into Parliament.--Line adopted there.--Style of speaking.--Becomes Secretary of Colonies.--Secre...
19. PART II.Currency.--Views thereupon.--Chairman in 1859 of Finance Committee.--Conduct as to the Queen’s trial.--Becomes Home Secretary.--Improvement of police, criminal law, prisons, &c....
20. PART III.Fall of the Goderich ministry.--Formation of the Cabinet under the Duke of Wellington.--Policy of that Cabinet.--Its junction with Mr. Canning’s friends.--The secession of these...
21. PART IV.Mr. O’Connell’s opposition in Ireland.--The general difficulties of the Government.--The policy it tried to pursue.--Its increasing unpopularity.--Its policy towards Don Miguel....
22. PART V.Effects of Reform.--Changes produced by reform.--Daniel O’Connell.--Lord Melbourne.--Choice of Speaker.--The Irish Tithe Bill.--Measures of Lord Melbourne.--The Irish question.-...
23. PART VI.Differences in the country.--Sir Robert Peel’s programme.--A new Conservative party.--Peel’s commercial policy.--Catholic education.--The Maynooth grant.--Corn Law agitation.--T...