Heroes of the Nineteenth Century

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Excerpt from Heroes of the Nineteenth Century: Gladstone Havelock Bismarck Lincoln Commanding powers, and a long life of strenuous labour in the public service, well entitle William Ewart Gladstone to a place in the Valhalla of British heroes. There are contests in the senate as well as upon the battle-field, and for two generations there was no political warrior so much in the public eye as he was. So long as his dominant figure led the Liberal hosts to battle it seemed almost inconceivable to picture England without its Gladstone. Some men born in the purple seem destined from the outset to a political career, but in the case of neither of the two great antagonists - Gladstone and Disraeli - could it have been predicted that they would rise to the influence and dignity of the most powerful position in the realm. The father of young Gladstone was a diligent merchant of Liverpool, the descendant of a good Scotch family, whose ramifications could be traced through a couple of centuries. 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.