Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Unbreakable Stability of the Republic
Wallpole held his offices practically without a break for 21 years the younger pit had an almost equal span of unbroken supremacy but with that exception there is no parallel to wallpole's long tenure of power. Wallpole was ceaselessly exposed to these small shocks and the vigor with which he circumvented the kabals was only less important to the security of the great public bulwark of his power than the success with which he surmounted grave difficulties of state. He chose the magnanimous course of insisting even at the expense of much unpopularity for himself on the most lenient councils that parliament could be persuaded to allow him. Even in the hour of his disgrace sundryland
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