DOUBLEDAY, Thomas

The Political Life of the Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart. An Analytical Biography

London Smith, Elder and Co. 1856, 2 vols. xii, 510, viii, 530 p. 23 cm. Hardcover. Both volumes: cloth on top of spine loose with small tears, tiny tears to bottom of spine, corners bumped, owner's sig. on front free endpaper and t.p., some pages uncut. Front cover of vol. 2 sl. stained. In an age of European revolutions, Peel may alone be said to have had the foresight and the strength to form a conservative party, resting not on force or on corruption, but on administrative capacity and the more stable portion of the public will. As for his more specific achievements, they are the mitigation of the rigour of the penal laws, a sound financial system, a free unrivalled commerce, the security of our persons from civil disorder, and the cheapness of our daily bread...no other statesman has proved more conclusively that the promotion of the welfare of his countrymen was the absorbing passion of his life. DNB. Extra shipping.

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