Rensselaer Republican, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1890 — Gladstone’s Long Sentences. [ARTICLE]

Gladstone’s Long Sentences.

London 'ourt Journal. Lord Harrington's humorous allusion to the length of the sentence he quoted from Mr. Gladstone's speech to the Wesleyan Homo Rulers was not without reason. Mr. Gladstone’s verbosity is incurable. It iR constantly breaking-forth in long winded sentences, not only in speeches but in writing. Last session, for example, he handed in a question which contained one hundred and twenty words. Also, last session, in one of his speeches in the House, he delivered a sentence which lasted five minutes by the reporter's watch* and would have filled over a quarter of a column of space had it been written out in full. Seeing that this sentence contained about six hundred words, the sentence .of 183 words which Lord Harrington quoted was comparatively moderate.