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Such after a few of the first years will be the future course of his Majesty's reign, which I predict will be happy and truly glorious. A new war I cannot yet see reason to apprehend. The peace will I think long continue, and your nation be as happy as they deserve to be." Nothing of note in Parliament, except one slight day on the American taxes. Horace Walpole.
Posterity has in like manner obstinately refused to degrade Robert Walpole into the Earl of Orford. He will be known as Robert Walpole so long as English history itself is known. Walpole, then, was on the ground down in the dust never to rise again. Surely it would seem the close of his career as a Prime-minister must be the opening of that of his rival and conqueror.
To Walpole Fox attached himself, politically and personally, with the ardor which belonged to his temperament. And it is not to be denied that in the school of Walpole he contracted faults which destroyed the value of his many great endowments.
Walpole had devoted himself to the task of strengthening the representative assembly, and he was, therefore, well justified in resisting the motion made by Mr. Bromley on March 13, 1734, for the repeal of the Septennial Act. Our interest now, however, is not so much with the political aspect of the debate as with its personal character.
Charles the First appears to have been the first English Sovereign who regarded art, not merely as an aid to the splendour of the throne, but for its own sake. As Walpole says, 'Queen Elizabeth was avaricious with pomp, James the First lavish with meanness. To neither had the position of the painter been a matter of the slightest concern.
The higher faculties are at first disturbed, but they soon become accustomed to the danger, and permit themselves to be destroyed one after another, with only feeble protestations. "All men have their price." Walpole. The plan which David had chosen to compel Pepeeta to abandon her husband was not a new one.
Some inquiries which Walpole made, confirmed the account given by Chatterton of himself; but in answer to his solicitation for patronage, Walpole declared that he had not the means of exerting it; and recommended a sedulous attention to business, as the most certain way of recompensing his mother for her care, and of securing his own independence.
Amid this explosion of tears and laughter the story of the Queen's life comes fittingly to an end. The moment the breath was out of the Queen's body, Walpole set about a course of action which should strengthen his position as Prime-minister of the King. At first his strong fear was that with the life of the Queen had passed away his own principal hold upon the confidence of George.
But there are palliations for him, even if the world were not too ready to forgive a man everything if he will only be a genius. Sir Robert Walpole used to say "that it was fortunate so few men could be prime ministers, as it was best that few should thoroughly know the shocking wickedness of mankind."
Horry was describing how Richard lifted little Goble by one hand and spun all the dignity out of him, when Miss Manners broke in, being able to contain herself no longer. "'An American, Mr. Walpole, and from Maryland? she demanded. And the way she said it made them all look at her. "'Assurement, mademoiselle, replied Horry, in his cursed French; and perhaps you know him.
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