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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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NOTE

The material on which this biography is founded consists mainly, of
course, of the papers collected at Hawarden. Besid