Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Protest Against the Government of Ireland
The drape years letters are among the very few pieces of political controversy on an ephemeral incident to which their literary qualities gave lasting interest. The case against them was marked by many exaggerations misrepresentations and lies unluckily for the peace of the british government the case was taken up by the strongest controversial genius of the age swift hated and despised the country in which his unhappy lot was cast but he had the honest contempt natural to a powerful mind for the wretched system on which it was governed. This was one of the two occasions in irish history on which the whole nation in both its branches and of both creeds spoke with one voice and faced their bad rulers with the united
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