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Title: Home school of American literature:
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Birdsall, William Wilfred, 1854-1909, (from old catalog) comp. and ed Jones, Rufus Matthew, 1863- (from old catalog) joint comp. and ed
Subjects: American literature English literature
Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., Elliott publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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time. He is
endowed, said a London paper during the Reform Bill agitation of 1866, with a
voice that can discourse most eloquent music, and with a speech that can equally
sound the depths of pathos or scale the heights of indignation, and the Times
declared that no orator of the century has stirred the heart of the country in so
short a time, or so effectually, by his own unaided intellect. The compelling force
of his sense of personal honor is well illustrated in his leaving the Gladstone Cabi-
net in 1882 on account of the bombardment of Alexandria, and Mr. Gladstone,
while radically differing from him, has declared this to be the action of all his life
most deserving of honor.
Mr. Bright did not follow Gladstone in his advocacy of home rule for Ire-
land, but believed that policy to be contrary to the interests, not only of England,
but of Ireland as well. He died in 1889, and perhaps no more fitting eulogium
could be pronounced upon his life and labors than to say of them, as did the Lon-
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WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE. JOHN BRIGHT

BENJAMIN DISRAELI. WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM.

ENGLISH STATESMEN IN LITERATURE.

JOHN BRIGHT. 663
don Spectator of his speech on Ireland in 1868, that it did more to draw the
noblest men of all parties nearer to each other than long years of discussion
had effected before. Higher praise could no man have than that he was an
instrument in bringing together the conflicting opinions of his countrymen ; helping
right-minded men to see the real truth which so often lies midway between the
partial views of shallower thinkers. This is the praise that belongs to the great
Quaker Statesman of England.

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