Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Decline of Marlborough
At the moment when Queen Anne dismissed Gedolfin, the great English general had Louis XIV at his mercy. With the fall of the Whigs all was changed. France once more raised her head. The Allies heard the news from London with profound dismay. But Bonlborough and Harley did not shrink. In days of a settled dynasty, like our own, it is hard to realize the apprehensions inspired by Marlborough's ascendancy. Men were nearer to the protectorate than we are to the great reform-bill. All the circumstances of the protectorate were living facts in the memory of the nation. There was nothing incredible or unimaginable in the notion of a great soldier seizing the
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