Walpole by John Morley ~ Full Audiobook [biography]
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The Wall Pole Speech
This famous speech is given in outlined by cocks chapter eighteen and footnote. The historian does not overrate in declaring it to be one of the most eloquent and masterly ever delivered in the house of commons. wall pole played an active part in both of these transactions as clearly as the jack bites he perceived that the feud between the prince and the king threatened real dangers to the peace of the realm things had reached such a pitch that the king actually consulted the lord chancellor as to the legality of a bill for compelling the prince of whales on the demise of whales. A lively altercation followed but such high and in spirit firmness in a political leader with an accepted character for judgment is always
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