Although Bernal Osborne was a man of great wit and sense, and Sir Stafford Northcote and Sir Michael Hicks-Beach were then, as the latter is now, very eminent characters, yet the only speakers who belonged to the rank of the great orators were Gladstone and Disraeli.
Hoar identifies Gladstone and Disraeli as the only speakers of great oratory among notable political figures of his time.
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His pure and lofty counsel fell unheeded upon the ears of his near neighbors, and the people of Massachusetts did not listen very patiently to lectures on political purity or reform in civil service from New York city.
But I cannot see it to be my duty to join in a secession from the Whig Party for the purpose of putting Mr.
He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
He indignantly rejected it, and declared he would not eat a creature that he loved.
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