All history, says Emerson, "resolves itself into the biographies of
a few stout and earnest persons." These remarks find
exemplification in the life of William Ewart Gladstone, of whom
they are pre-eminently true. His recorded life, from the early
period of his graduation to his fourth premiership, would embrace
in every important respect not only the history of the British
Empire, but very largely the international events of every nation
of the world for more than half a century. William Ewart Gladstone,
M.P., D.C.L., statesman, orator and scholar, was born December 27,
1809, in Liverpool, England. The house in which he was born, number
62 Rodney Street, a commodious and imposing "double-fronted"
dwelling of red brick, is still standing. In the neighborhood of
the Rodney Street house, and a few years before or after the birth
of William E. Gladstone, a number of distinguished persons were
born, among them William Roscoe, the writer and philanthropist,
John Gibson, the sculptor, Doctor Bickersteth, the late Bishop of
Ripon, Mrs. Hemans, the poetess, and Doctor James Martineau,
Professor of Mental and Moral Philosophy in Manchester New College,
and the brother of Harriet Martineau, the authoress.
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