. Richard Cobden, the apostle of free trade. His political career and public services, a biography . BIRTHPLACE OF RICHARD COBDEX. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN 6 5 •« • TO THE PEOPLE OK ENGLAND, FRANCE, AMERICA, ANT) THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD AT LARGE, THIS HUMBLE ATTEMPT TO DELINEATE THECHARACTER AND CAREER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN- OF TOE AGE, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. The leading purpose which the Author pro-posed to himself in his plan of this work, andwhich he has faithfully carried out in its exe-cution, was to tell the story of Mr. Cobdens lifeand patriotic and phi
. Richard Cobden, the apostle of free trade. His political career and public services, a biography . BIRTHPLACE OF RICHARD COBDEX. NEW YORK: HARPER & BROTHERS, PUBLISHERS, FRANKLIN 6 5 •« • TO THE PEOPLE OK ENGLAND, FRANCE, AMERICA, ANT) THE INDUSTRIAL WORLD AT LARGE, THIS HUMBLE ATTEMPT TO DELINEATE THECHARACTER AND CAREER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN- OF TOE AGE, THE AUTHOR. PREFACE. The leading purpose which the Author pro-posed to himself in his plan of this work, andwhich he has faithfully carried out in its exe-cution, was to tell the story of Mr. Cobdens lifeand patriotic and philanthropic public services,as far as possible, in the very words of the sub-ject of his biography. For that purpose, everyspeech made by Mr. Cobden within the walls ofParliament, and, so far as they could be traced,every utterance of his delivered elsewhere, havebeen carefully perused. And the principle ofselection applied to the citations which havebeen chosen, has been to supply, not so much(except in a few signal cases) the finest speci-mens of Cobdens oratory as the passages whichar
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