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| | §75. Palmerston. II. Historians, Biographers and Political Orators. Vol. 14. The Victorian Age, Part Two. The ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01) |
 | | To oratorical distinction, neither John Charles, viscount Althorp (afterwards earl Spencer), lord Greys lieutenant in the house of commons, where he enjoyed a unique personal regard, nor his successor in the leadership of the whig party and as prime-minister, William Lamb, viscount Melbourne, had any wish to attain. |
 | | The latter, indeed, though he went so far as to declare that the worst thing about the Spaniards was their speaking so well, could himself do this as most other things well when obliged to do them. |
 | | The two statesmen, in turn colleagues and rivals, who succeeded lord Melbourne as heads of the liberal party, lord John, afterwards earl, Russell and Henry Temple, viscount Palmerston, were, neither of them, born to sway senates by the force or grace of their eloquence. |
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