The Grand Old Man: Gladstone
by Richard B. Cook
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About this eBook
- Author
- Cook, Richard B. (Richard Briscoe), 1838-1916
- Title
- The Grand Old Man Or, the Life and Public Services of the Right Honorable William Ewart Gladstone, Four Times Prime Minister of England
- Credits
- Produced by Juliet Sutherland, Charlie Kirschner, Tom Allen, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- DA: History: General and Eastern Hemisphere: Great Britain, Ireland, Central Europe
- Subject
- Prime ministers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 9900
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/9900
- Release Date
- February 1, 2006
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.The Grand Old Man, by Richard B. Cook
- 2.PREFACE
- 3.CONTENTS.
- 4.LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- 5.INTRODUCTORY.
- 6.CHAPTER I — ANCESTRY AND BIRTH
- 7.CHAPTER II — AT ETON AND OXFORD
- 8.CHAPTER III — EARLY PARLIAMENTARY EXPERIENCES
- 9.CHAPTER IV — BOOK ON CHURCH AND STATE
- 10.CHAPTER V — TRAVELS AND MARRIAGE
- 11.CHAPTER VI — ENTERS THE CABINET
- 12.CHAPTER VII — MEMBER FOR OXFORD
- 13.CHAPTER VIII — THE NEAPOLITAN PRISONS
- 14.CHAPTER IX — THE FIRST BUDGET
- 15.CHAPTER X — THE CRIMEAN WAR
- 16.CHAPTER XI — IN OPPOSITION TO THE GOVERNMENT
- 17.CHAPTER XII — HOMERIC STUDIES
- 18.CHAPTER XIII — GREAT BUDGETS
- 19.CHAPTER XIV — LIBERAL REFORMER AND PRIME MINISTER
- 20.CHAPTER XV — THE GOLDEN AGE OF LIBERALISM
- 21.CHAPTER XVI — THE EASTERN QUESTION
- 22.CHAPTER XVII — MIDLOTHIAN AND THE SECOND PREMIERSHIP
- 23.CHAPTER XVIII — THIRD ADMINISTRATION AND HOME RULE
- 24.CHAPTER XIX — PRIME MINISTER THE FOURTH TIME
- 25.CHAPTER XX — IN PRIVATE LIFE
- 26.CHAPTER XXI — CLOSING SCENES OF A LONG AND EVENTFUL LIFE
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