The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,070 pages of information about The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1.

The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 1,070 pages of information about The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1.

Junius:  Our enemies treat us as the cunning trader does the unskilful Indian. they magnify their generosity when they give us baubles of no proportionate value for ivory and gold.-vol. ii. p. 359.

Walpole:  They made a legal purchase to all eternity of empires and posterity, from a parcel of naked savages, for a handful of glass beads and baubles.-Vol. i. p. 343.

Junius:  If you deny him the cup, there will be no keeping him within the pale of the ministry.-vol. ii. p. 249.

Walpole:  Where I believe the clergy do not deny the laity the cup.-Letter to Montague.  He took care to regulate his patron’s warmth within the pale of his own advantage.-Memoires, vol. ii. p. 197.  Come over to the pale of loyalty.-vol. i. p. 282.

Junius:  Honour and justice must not be renounced although a thousand modes of right and wrong were to occupy the degrees of morality between Zeno and Epicurus.  The fundamental principles of Christianity may still be preserved.-vol. ii. p. 346.

Walpole:  The modes of Christianity were exhausted.-Vol. ii. p. 282 To mark how much the modes of thinking change, and that fundamentals themselves can make no impression.-vol. ii. p. 265.

Junius:  He (the duke of Bedfor) would not have betrayed such ignorance or such contempt of the constitution as openly to avow in a court of judicature the purchase and sale of a borough.  Note.- In an answer in chancery in a suit against him to recover a large sum paid him by a person whom he had undertaken to return to parliament for one of his Grace’s boroughs.  He was compelled to repay the money.-vol. i. p. 576.

Walpole:  Corruption prevailed in the House of Commons.  Instances had been brought to our courts of judicature how much it prevailed in our elections.  Note.-The Duke of Bedford had received 1500 pounds for electing Jefrery French at one of his boroughs in the west; but he dying immediately, his heir sued the Duke for the money, who paid it, rather than let the cause be heard.

Junius:  The Princess Dowager made it her first care to inspire her son with horror against heresy, and with a respect for the church.  His mother took more pains to form his beliefs than either his morals or his understanding.-vol. iii. p. 408.

Walpole:  >From the death of the Prince the object of the Princess Dowager had been the government of her son; and her attention had answered.  She had taught him great devotion, and she had taken care that he should be taught nothing else.-Vol. i. p. 396.

Junius:  That prince had strong natural parts, and used frequently to blush for his own ignorance and want of education, which had been wilfully neglected by his mother and her minion.

Walpole:  Martin spoke for the clause, and said, “The King could not have a separate interest from his people, the Princess might; witness Queen Isabella and her minion Mortimer."-Vol. i. p. 118.

Transcriber’s note:  the following paragraph is surrounded by asterisks. it appears to be a comment by the letter writer, sir charles Grey, rather than either Junius or Walpole.

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