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Hace 2 días · The utter dominance of Sir Robert Walpole prompted some Whigs to quit the administration and embrace opposition. There was also the tendency for many of the Whigs to be identified with one or more of the great aristocrats that helped create differences in outlook depending on which patron they were associated with.
Hace 5 días · He was answered by Sir Robert Walpole, who represented, 'That such an Inquiry might be injurious to the Memory of some Dead, and after all, prove altogether unprofitable to the Living.' Then the previous Question being put, that the Question be now put, it passed in the Negative.
Hace 4 días · The statue stands upon a square pedestal, upon which is an inscription which states that she was the first wife of Sir Robert Walpole, afterwards Earl of Orford, and that " 'Horace, her youngest son,' consecrated this monument," as we have said above.
Hace 2 días · The house was occupied first by its creator, Edward Russell, earl of Orford, and then by Sir Robert Walpole, PaymasterGeneral, from 1714. (fn. 11) Walpole employed Sir John Vanbrugh to enlarge the house, and design stables and coachhouse and garden buildings including the surviving orangery.
Hace 4 días · Boswell's remark to Sir George Staunton that Johnson 'always took care to put Sir Robert Walpole in the wrong' is illustrated here by Johnson's 'Debate in the Senate of Lilliput' that reported the fall of 'Sir Rub.
Hace 1 día · THE MAKING OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE (A.D. 1714-1832) – AUDIOBOOK By Arthur Hassall (1853 – 1930) At its height, the British Empire was the largest in history. This short volume traces its development through the long 18th century, from 1714 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars. Founded on the prosperity of Sir Robert Walpole’s […]
Hace 4 días · “They may ring their bells now”, said the first de facto prime minister of Britain, Sir Robert Walpole – although the prevailing sentiment today is more one of disillusionment with all ‘politicians’ – but “before long they will be wringing their hands”.
