Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Importance of Honor in Politics
wall pole was unscrupulous in his means for grasping power and keeping it that he gave some advice without a blush which any leading english statesman today would readily rather extinguish his public life than give is unfortunately too certain writers on morals tell us that conduct has an aesthetic and an ethical aspect. He did undoubtedly take a loftier view of the connection between public authority and private honor than had been the fashion before his time but still we should hesitate to brand generally as either unscrupulous or unprincipled chattem acted in a way not at all to his honor when he first offered to screen wall pole and then on his offer being repulsed redouble the violence of his attack george
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