Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . taining thehonour and dignity of Britain, and perhaps plunged hiscountry into many conflicts which might, without muchdifficulty, have been avoided. The nation, however, feltthat its interests abroad were safe as long as Palmerstonhad control. He died, while prime minister, in 1865, Benjamin Disraeli believed in his country as thoroughlyas did Lord Palmerston, and was sincerely anxious to haveGreat Britain play a brilliant part among the nations, andt
Ontario Public School History of England : Authorized by the Minister of Education for Ontario for Use in Forms IV and V of the Public Schools . taining thehonour and dignity of Britain, and perhaps plunged hiscountry into many conflicts which might, without muchdifficulty, have been avoided. The nation, however, feltthat its interests abroad were safe as long as Palmerstonhad control. He died, while prime minister, in 1865, Benjamin Disraeli believed in his country as thoroughlyas did Lord Palmerston, and was sincerely anxious to haveGreat Britain play a brilliant part among the nations, andto have her greatness recognized in every part of the first speech in the House of Commons was received withsuch shouts of laughter that he was compelled to sit will sit down now, he said, but the time will comewhen you will hear me. Step by step his knowledge ofpublic questions and his skill in debate brought him to thefront, and the Conservatives were forced to accept him astheir leader, although many of them believed that he was aman without strong political convictions. He became prime 284 HISTORY OF ENGLAND [1837-1901. William Ewart Gladstone minister for the first time in 1868. In 1876 he was raisedto the peerage as Earl of Beaconsfield. He died in 1881. William Ewart Gladstone differed from all three of hisgreat contemporaries in his intense interest in domestic legislation and in social andpolitical reforms. He was muchmore anxious to raise the massesof the people than to play a greatpart in the politics of the of his strongest desires wasto keep Britain at peace, and toimpress the nations that, thoughstrong, his country was work as a statesman waswholly intended to improve thecondition of the people, and tohim is due a great deal of themost important legislation of thelast sixty years. Throughout hiscareer he may at times haveseemed inconsistent, but every change of opinion wasalways a step in advance; he never hesitated to do whathe
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