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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Among the numerous vicissitudes of political friendships and enmities which Mr. Pitt's life exhibits, it is amusing to find fifteen years after this fierce encounter, old Horace and Mr. Pitt confidential friends, and the latter consulting, in 1755, as a kind of oracle, the political Nestor, on whom he had so long before as 1740 pronounced sentence of dotage. Sir Herbert Croft, in his compound of fact and fiction, called Love and Madness, has erroneously attributed the speech to Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford, who thus notices the blunder in a letter to the Rev. Mr. Cole, March 13,1780: The Editor has in one place confounded me and my uncle; who, he says (as is true), checked Lord Chatham for being too forward a young man in 1740. In that year I was not even come into Parliament; and must have been absurd indeed if I had taunted Lord Chatham with youth, who was at least six or seven years younger than he was; and how could he reply by reproaching me with old age, who was not then twenty-three ? I shall make no answer to these absurdities, nor to any part of the work. Blunder, I see, people will, and talk of what they do not understand and what care I r1 HORACE WALPOLE AND MR. PITT. Walpole was almost invariably the detractor of Mr. Pitt. In 1744, he tells us that Pitt, who has alternately bullied and flattered Mr. Pelham, is at last to be Secretary-at-War. Then, support of the Ministry having failed to enable Mr. Pelham to introduce Mr. Pitt, he seems to have tried what a little opposition would do. On November 22, Walpole writes: The Ministers had yesterday a baiting from Pitt, who is ravenous for the place of Secretary-at- War; they would give it him; but as a preliminary, he insists on a declaration of our having nothing to do with the Continent. The moti...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217684279 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217684270 |
| Weight | 1.16 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.80 In |
| List Price | $22.26 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 358 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-09-01 |
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