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‘Truth, justice, order, peace, honour, duty, liberty, piety’, these are the objects before me in my daily prayers with reference to my public function, which for the present commands (and I fear damages) every other: but this is the best part of me. All the rest is summed up in ‘miserere’.1
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Biagini, E.F. (2000). Introduction. In: Gladstone. British History in Perspective. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-87867-3_1
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