Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Walpole” in chapter 5, page 325 of George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 3, 15th edition.:
...dgment sunk under the infirmities of fourscore.
Happy period for the colonies!
Let England judge as she will of the minister to whom she owes septennial parliaments, America blesses the memory of Walpole and of Fleury as of statesmen who preferred commerce to conquest, and desired no higher glory than that of guardians of
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