. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. e cause, butwe cannot starve ! Now what say ye, our merry men, touching the ballot ? Such were the two opinions that vented themselves in respect to Glad-stones election. No doul)t the statesman himself, in the afterpart of his 72 LIIL AND TIMES Ul- WILLIAM L. GLADSTONE. career, would have cheerfully coincided with what was
. Life and times of William E. Gladstone : an account of his ancestry and boyhood, his career at Eton and Oxford, his entrance into public life, his rise to leadership and fame, his genius as statesman and author, and his influence on the progress of the nineteenth century. e cause, butwe cannot starve ! Now what say ye, our merry men, touching the ballot ? Such were the two opinions that vented themselves in respect to Glad-stones election. No doul)t the statesman himself, in the afterpart of his 72 LIIL AND TIMES Ul- WILLIAM L. GLADSTONE. career, would have cheerfully coincided with what was said by the Reflectoraoainst himself and the manner of his first election to the House of Com-mons. It can hardly be doubted that the organized power of Toryism wasturned by the Duke of Newcastle upon the constituency of Newark tosecure the election of his sons friend and his own supporter to will be noted that the number of votes secured for Gladstone was justfairly sufficient to make his election unambiguous. Certainly the carpingof the Liberal opposition did not go so far as to asperse the character andtalents of the young man who had come home from his travels in Italy tobegin one of the longest and most conspicuous public careers known BLACRFRIAKS BRIDGE, LOKDUN.
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