CHAPTER I
EARLY LIFE, AND FIRST WRITINGS
It will soon be a hundred and twenty years since Burke
first took his seat, in the House of Commons, and
it is eighty-five years since his voice ceased to
be h...
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John Morley, 1st Viscount Morley of Blackburn Biography (4)
The English statesman and author John Morley, Viscount Morley of Blackburn (1838-1923), was one of the principal Victorian expositors of the ideas of the Enlightenment. He was a leader of the Liberal ...
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In the second half of the nineteenth century John Morley had a distinguished reputation as a man of letters, specifically as an editor and a biographer. In 1883 he became a member of Parliament and la...
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John Morley had two distinguished careers--first, as a journalist, editor, biographer, and critic, and second, as a politician. In his first role he is now best known as the writer of a monumental lif...
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John Morley's claim to a prominent place among British reform writers of the later nineteenth century rests mainly on his position as editor of and chief contributor to the Fortnightly Review between ...
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