Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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Wall Pole's Necessity of Literature and Letters
Lord Campbell whimsically complains that wall pole is responsible by his utter neglect of literature and literary men. Nobody did less for men of letters than the younger pit yet no minister ever held in transacting public business a loftier or less vulgar tone as for wall poles infecting public life with aristocratic feeling. He belonged to no great family and formed no powerful connections when men talk of the Venetian oligarchy of patrician wigs they forget that the patrician oligarchy was controlled in its palmiest days by a plain country gentleman. It would have been a graceful decoration to his solid gifts if wall pole had played the patron of art and letters but after all the work of government
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