An Anecdotal History of the British Parliament From the Earliest Periods to the
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I know no other instance (writes Lord Dalling) of a man entering the House of Commons at Cobbett's age (between sixty and seventy) and becoming at once an effective debater in it. Looking carelessly round the assembly so new to him, with his usual self-confidence ho spoke on the first occasion that presented itself, pro- posing an amendment to the Address; but this was not his happiest effort, and consequently created disappointment. Ho soon, however, obliterated the failure, and became rather ...a favourite with an audience which is only unforgiving when bored. It was still seen, moreover, that nothing daunted him ; the murmurs, the " Oh ! " or more serious repre- hension and censure, found him shaking his head with his hands in his pockets, as cool and defiant as when he first stuck up the picture of King 202 ANECDOTAL BISTORT OF PARLIAMENT. George in his shop window at Philadelphia. He exhibited in Parliament, too, the same want of tact, prudence, and truth ; the same egotism, the same combativeness, and the same reckless desire to struggle with received opinions, that had marked him previously through life, and shattered his career into glittering fragments, from which the world could never collect the imago nor the practical utility of a whole.
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