Excerpt from Orators of the Age: Comprising Portraits, Critical, Biographical, and DescriptiveSir robert peel is, and for many years has been, the most prominent and in¿uential politician in this country. In office, he has made his will the law of his fellow-countrymen, out of office, he has cast the shadow of his power on his rivals. In his social rank, not so advantageously placed as most of those with whom he has struggled in the course of his career, he had to contend against aristocratic prejudice on the one hand, and the want of popular sympathy on the other. He has conquered the former by constituting himself its organ and leader, he has, however late, secured the latter by his bold adoption of a popular policy. But in the meanwhile, though his position as a statesman.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.