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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