But those who have occasion to refer to his speeches and calmly to examine them, will be struck by the amplitude and the freshness of his knowledge, the clearness of his views, the coherence in all his efforts, and often--a point for which he never had sufficient credit--by his graphic idiom.
From a biography of Lord George Bentinck, this passage describes the enduring qualities of his parliamentary speeches.
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