Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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Wall Pole's Corruption
It is absurd to suppose that wall pole first tempted mankind into repacity and selfishness even his enemies admitted that corruption had been gaining ground ever since the time of charles. Nobody denies that in all its forms the venality alike of members and of constituencies was vastly worse 30 years after wall pole's disappearance than anybody ever asserted it to be in his time. A select committee of 21 members 19 of them his bitter enemies appointed after his fall to lay a siege to his past life produced no specific facts to support the allegation subbribery which had been used every week and every day for so many years to inflame public resentment against him.
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