Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Queen's Secret Discomforture With the Crown
queen at her own expense and to her profound secret discomforture as a woman much as the queen had to endure in her masculine desire for power her use of it was uniformly for good she had a thorough grasp of the principles of wall poles policy. She comprehended and sympathized with his temper and his maxims and perceived as clearly as wall pole himself how closely the stability of the dynasty was bound up with the firm maintenance of a parliamentary constitution no two personages were ever more fitted thoroughly to understand one another than wall pole and queen carolin. Her theological views undoubtedly lean to the latitudinarian the tolerant and the heterodox and were presumably as empty of spiritual force as the rest of
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