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But he was a Wilkite in the better sense of being true to his own opinions and true to his sense of public duty. When he expressed the wish to have the words "A friend to liberty" inscribed upon his monument, he expressed a wish which the whole tenor of his life, the whole tone of his utterances fully justified. And if he was loyal to his principles he could be chivalrous to his enemies.
I subscribe to all your praise of him, and repent of my ungracious murmurs at his society. Whatever we do, he overdoes, till I recollect how Wilkes said he had never been a Wilkite.
"To see the liberation of the idol of the people, I'll lay ten guineas. But they say the great Mr. Wilkes is to come out quietly, and wishes no demonstration," said Mr. Fox. "I believe the beggar has some sense, if the Greek would only let him have his way. So your captain is a Wilkite, Mr. Carvel?" he demanded. "I fear you run very fast to conclusions, Mr.
His assurance to King George that he himself had never been a Wilkite is in one sense the truest criticism that has ever been passed upon him. If to be a Wilkite was to entertain all the advanced and all the wild ideas expressed by many of those who took advantage of his agitation, then certainly Wilkes was none such.
A man named John Wilkes started a political movement in England in the eighteenth century, and around him sprang up a party who called themselves Wilkites. These followers of Wilkes, however, went to extremes so wild and perilous that poor John Wilkes himself had to explain to everybody that, as for him, he was not a Wilkite.
"Why," said the King, "he was your friend and your counsel in all your trials." "Sir," rejoined Wilkes, "he was my counsel one must have a counsel; but he was no friend; he loves sedition and licentiousness which I never delighted in. In fact, Sir, he was a Wilkite, which I never was."
Wilkes was not a 'Wilkite, nor was any of his party, if Wilkite meant anything like Jacobin. Parl. Hist. xxx. 787. State Trials, xxiv. 382. Thus, however anomalous the constitution of parliament, there was no thought of any far-reaching revolution. The great mass of the population was too ignorant, too scattered and too poor to have any real political opinions.
"To see the liberation of the idol of the people, I'll lay ten guineas. But they say the great Mr. Wilkes is to come out quietly, and wishes no demonstration," said Mr. Fox. "I believe the beggar has some sense, if the Greek would only let him have his way. So your captain is a Wilkite, Mr. Carvel?" he demanded. "I fear you run very fast to conclusions, Mr.
The pamphlets against the Wilkite agitators and the American rebels are little more than a huge "rhinoceros" snort of contempt against all who are fools enough or wicked enough to promote war and disturbance in order to change one form of authority for another. Here is a characteristic passage, giving his view of the value of such demonstrators: "The progress of a petition is well known.
According to Lord Albemarle, in his Memoirs of Rockingham, ii. 209, from the period of this struggle 'the Whigs and what are now called Radicals became two distinct sections of the Liberal party. Townshend, who in this followed the lead of Lord Shelburne, headed the more moderate men against Wilkes. The Livery, for a time at least, was Wilkite.
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