...Macaulay described him in the review of his first book as a ' young man of unblemished " character " and of distinguished parliamentary talents, the rising...cautious temper and moderate opinions they abhor.' Tories seem never to know their own mercies. The last part of this sentence is just as true to-day...

...of unblemished character and of distinguished parliamentary talents, the rising hope of those »tern . Nothing, then, can be more natural than that a person...those great men with whose minds he holds daily comm De at strange if Mr. Gladstone were one of the most unpopular men in England. But we believe thai we...

...8vo. Second Edition. London : 1839. THE author of this volume is a young man of unblemished character, and of distinguished parliamentary talents, the rising...unbending Tories who follow, reluctantly and mutinously, a lender whose experience and eloquence are indispensable to them, but whose cautious temper and moderate...

...unblemished character and of distinguished parliamentary talents, the rising hope of those stern arid unbending Tories, who follow, reluctantly and mutinously,...and moderate opinions they abhor. It would not be at ail strange if Mr. Gladstone were one of the most unpopular men in England. But we believe that we...

...of unblemished character and of distinguished parliamentary talents, the rising hope of those siern ted out the expression of characier nnpopular men in England. But we believe that we do him no more than justice when we say, that his...

...at Oxford, and was, as Lord Macaulay said of him seven years afterwards, " the hope of those stern, unbending Tories who follow, reluctantly and mutinously,...cautious temper and moderate opinions they abhor." His theological opinions immediately took the tone of that Anglican Catholicism, the revival of which,...

...AND STATE.* [Edinburgh Review.] THE author of this volume is a young man of unbletuished eharaeter and of distinguished parliamentary talents, the rising...hope of those stern and unbending Tories, who follow, reluetantly and mutinously, a leader, whose experienee and eloquenee are indispensable to them, but...

...at Oxford, and was, as Lord Macaulay said of him seven years afterwards, " the hope of those stern, unbending Tories who follow, reluctantly and mutinously,...cautious temper and moderate opinions they abhor." His theological opinions immediately took the tone of that Anglican Catholicism, the revival of which,...

...however true at the time, and up to 1842, Macaulay's description of Mr. Gladstone, in 1839, as— " The rising hope of those stern and unbending Tories...cautious temper and moderate opinions they abhor," was not prophetic. CHAPTER II. FKOM 1842 TO 1846. THE TRANSITION PEB.IOD. IT was in 1842 that Sir R....

...parliamentary talents, the rising hope — ' he adds, and how. oddly the words read nowadays ! — ' the rising hope of those stern and unbending Tories...cautious temper and moderate opinions they abhor.' Mr. Gladstone himself, however, has but just now in his Autobiographic Chapter told us, in the first...