Category: Biographies
William Ewart Gladstone
PAGE I. INTRODUCTION 1 II. EARLY INFLUENCES 5 III. PARLIAMENTARIAN 18 IV. ORATOR 39 V. ORIGINALITY AND INDEPENDENCE 56 VI. SOCIAL QUALITIES 76 VII. AUTHORSHIP 81 VIII. RELIGIOUS CHARACTER 94
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With this singular openness and flexibility of mind, there went a not less remarkable ingenuity and resourcefulness. His mind was fertile in expedients, and still more fertile i...
3. Chapter 3People who read next day the report in the newspapers of a speech delivered on such an occasion could not comprehend the impression it had made on the listeners. “What was there...
4. Chapter 4ADDING these charms of manner to a memory of extraordinary strength and quickness and to an amazing vivacity and variety of mental force, any one can understand how fascinating...
1. Chapter 1PAGE I. INTRODUCTION 1 II. EARLY INFLUENCES 5 III. PARLIAMENTARIAN 18 IV. ORATOR 39 V. ORIGINALITY AND INDEPENDENCE 56 VI. SOCIAL QUALITIES 76 VII. AUTHORSHIP 81 VIII. RELIGIOUS...
5. Chapter 5The favorite Greek maxim that no man can be called happy till his life is ended must, in the case of statesmen, be extended to warn us from the attempt to fix any one’s place in...