Born December 29, 1809, William Ewart Gladstone shaped nineteenth-century English prose through moral argument and classical discipline. His speeches and essays demonstrated how complex sentences could carry ethical weight, intellectual rigor, and persuasive force, defining a serious register of English that influenced political, academic, and public discourse.
Birth of William Ewart Gladstone (1809–1898) – The Statesman Who Gave English Prose Its Victorian Gravity
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