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The Letters of Horace Walpole: Earl of Orford: Including Numerous Letters Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts ...
The Letters of Horace Walpole Earl of Orford Including Numerous Letters Now First Published from the Original Manuscripts Author:Horace Walpole, John Wright 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: over myself. You, my lord, who have forty more good qualities than I have, should not seclude yourself. I do uot wonder you despise knaves and fools ; but rememb... more »er, they want better examples; they will never grow ashamed by conversing with one another. I came to settle here on Friday, being drowned out of Twickenham. I find the town desolate, and no news in it, but that the ministry give up the Irish Tax—some say, because it will not pass in Ireland; others, because the City of London would have petitioned against it; and some, because there were factions in the council—which is not the most incredible of all. I am glad, for the sake of some of my friends who would have suffered by it, that it is over.1 In other respects, I have too much private business of my own to think about the public, which is big enough to take care of itself. I have heard of some of Lady Mary Coke's mortifications. I have regard and esteem for her good qualities, which are many; but I doubt her genius will never suffer her to bo quite happy. As she will not take the Psalmist's advice of not putting trust, I am sure she would not follow mine; for, with all her piety, King David is the only royal person she will not listen to, and therefore I forbear my sweet counsel. When she and Lord Huntingdon meet, will not they put you in mind of Count Gage and Lady Mary Herbert, who met in the mines of Asturias, after they had failed of the crown of Poland ?'—Adieu, my dear lord ! Come you and my lady among us. You have some friends that are not odious, and who will be rejoiced to see you both—witness, for one, Yours most faithfully. 1 A tax upon absentees. Mr. Hardy, in his Memoirs of Lord Charlemont, says, that the influence of the Whig leaders predominated so far as to oblige the ministers to relinquish ...« less