Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Great Party Revolution of Queen Anne
Queen Anne's resentment was deep, and though she was obliged to take the two leaders back into her service, they never recovered either her favor or her confidence. The important fact during the first eight years of the reign of Queen Anne is not that the administration was first Tory, then composite of Wig and Tory, and in its final stage pure Whig. In all its stages whether Whig or Tory are Marlborough administration, seconding the policy, providing means for the projects, and devoted to the person of that great and powerful genius. It brought about that government by a particular political connection which birthed some sixty years later,. singled out as the grand illustration furnished by one of
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