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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1836. Excerpt: ... 259 CHAPTER XIII. LIBERAL PARTY.-EARLS. EARL GREY--EARL OF DURHAM--EARL OF RADNOR--EARL OF CARNARVON EARL MULGRAVE EARL OF BURLINGTON EARL FIFE--EARL FITZWILLIAM. The name of Earl Grey is one which has not only of late years occupied a most prominent, perhaps the most prominent, place among his contemporaries, but it is, without question, destined to be better known by posterity than of any other statesman of the present day. The zeal and energy with which, in earlv life, when a member of the Lower House, he espoused those liberal principles of Reform which he afterwards not only lived to see triumphant, but whose triumph was chiefly brought about by his own instrumentality,--brought his name familiarly before the public upwards of forty years ago; and the undeviating steadiness with which he adhered, through the whole of his after life, to the principles with which in the outset he identified himself, notwithstanding the various political vicissitudes of thatlong and eventful period,--would have procured for him no ordinary reputation in the estimation of unborn generations, though his name had been in nowise associated with the Reform Bill. But it is the circumstance of his having been the author of that great measure, and the Minister under whose auspices it was triumphantly carried through both Houses of Parliament, in defiance of a most decided and powerful Opposition, that gives him that commanding station which he now occupies in the eyes of the country, and which his memory will inevitably occupy in the eyes of future ages. I doubt if there be a statesman of the present day, no matter of what party, whose public career has been of any length, who has been equally consistent in his opinions and conduct. I am satisfied the history of the country doe...
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