The Life Of William Ewart Gladstone Mr Gladstones Character And Career By Sir W Reid Mr Gladstons Ancestry And Early Years By A F Robbins Mr Gladstone And The Oxford Union Society By F W Hirst Mr Gladstone As A Scholar By A J Butler Mr Gladstone As A Tory By F W Hirst Mr Gladstone As A Theologian By Canon Maccoll Mr Gladstone And The Reform Of The Tariff By F W Hirst Mr Gladstone In Society By G W E Russell And Sir W Reid Mr Gladstone As A Peelite By F W Hirst

Author : David Williamson
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334797972
Total Pages : 494 pages
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Download or read book William Ewart Gladstone written by David Williamson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-12-27 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from William Ewart Gladstone: Statesman and Scholar Lord rosebery once remarked that if an adequate biography of Mr. Gladstone were ever written, it would be the work of a Limited Liability Company. Certainly, the marvellous variety of interests which absorbed Mr. Gladstone during his long life has made the task of recording his multifarious achievements, and of appreciating their value, well-nigh impossible. Yet it is a task which is all the more fascinating by its very greatness and difficulty. Mr. Gladstone has given his own opinions on the subject of biography What we want in a biography, and what, despite the etymology of the title, we very seldom find, is life. The very best transcript is a failure, if it be a transcript only. To fulfil its idea, it must have in it the essential quality of movement must realise the lofty fiction of the divine shield of Achilles, where the up turning earth, though wrought in metal, darkened as the plough went on and the figures of the battle-pieces dealt their blows and parried them, and dragged out from the turmoil the bodies of their dead. In compiling this volume the aim has been to give a careful chronicle not only of the political career of certainly the busiest politician of the century, but also to complete the picture of the activities of Mr. Gladstone in other fields by recording his acts and speeches in connection with theology, literature, and art interests which shared the throne with politics the sum of all the sciences, as Seward called it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.