Word: gladstoneâ
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...went off to Walton Heath. Either he is seedy or meditating a speech. I am certain we (British, French, Italians) ought to get together and put the truth baldly to Wilson. He is now taking charge in a way that terrifies me, as he is only a super-Gladstone???and a dangerous visionary at that...
Significance. Disraeli and Gladstone???both were remote. Disraeli, artist and Jew, seemed always a foreigner. Gladstone, Olympian Christian, had, said one, "the mind of a 13th Century schoolman." One seemed to come from another clime, one from another time. They both ruled the hard-headed men of England for two generations. Both were clearly patterned in the weave, not only of England, but also of the modern world. Fortunately two of the world's greatest biographies record their lives-Lord Morley on Gladstone, Moneypenny and Buckle on Disraeli...
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