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The nation looked upon him as a deserter, and he shrunk into insignificancy and an earldom.... He was fixed in the house of lords, that hospital of incurables, and his retreat to popularity was cut off; for the confidence of the public, when once great and once lost, is never to be regained. - Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield
Attribution: Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl Chesterfield (1694–1773), British statesman, man of letters. Characters of Chesterfield, 1778, repr. Augustan Reprint Society, nos. 259-260, p. 28, University of California, Los Angeles (1990). Character of William Pulteney, 1st Early of Bath (1684-1764), first minister in the British government in 1746.

Categories: Man Of Letters, Parliament: House Of Lords, Popularity, Statesman

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