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John Morley: Gladstone had both displayed a sure instinct as to the most effective method of popular approach, and at the same time…

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Gladstone had both displayed a sure instinct as to the most effective method of popular approach, and at the same time did justice to his own burning and innate hatred of all cruelty and oppression, whether in Bourbon or Bashi-Bazouk.
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John Morley

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Morley acknowledges Gladstone's effective approach to addressing cruelty and oppression.

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