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Title: The Life of William Ewart Gladstone, Vol. 1 (of 3)
1809-1859
Author: John Morley
Release Date: April 15, 2007 [EBook #21091]
Language: English
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[Illustration: Walker and Cockrell Photo
Sir John Gladstone
_from a painting by William Bradley_]
THE LIFE OF
WILLIAM EWART
GLADSTONE
BY
JOHN MORLEY
_IN THREE VOLUMES--VOL. I_
(_1809-1859_)
TORONTO
GEORGE N. MORANG & COMPANY, LIMITED
1903
COPYRIGHT, 1903,
BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY.
Set up, electrotyped, and published October, 1903. Reprinted
October, November, 1903.
Norwood Press
J. S. Cushing & Co.--Berwick & Smith Co.
Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
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IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION
OF
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NOTE
The material on which this biography is founded consists mainly, of
course, of the papers collected at Hawarden. Besid
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