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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition. 1 1 Browse Search
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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 6, 10th edition., Chapter 30: (search)
At the beginning of this excitement, Charles Sept. Townshend was seized with fever, and after a short illness, during which he met danger with the unconcerned levity that had marked his conduct of the most serious affairs, Walpole's Memoirs of George III. III. 99. he died at the age of forty-one, famed alike for incomparable talents, and extreme instability. W. S. Johnson to E. Dyer, 12 Sept. 1767, and other letters of Johnson. Where were now his gibes? Letters of Lady Hervey, Sept. 1767. Where his flashes of merriment that set the table in a roar; his brilliant eloquence which made him the wonder of Parliament? If his indiscretion forbade esteem, his good-humor dissipated hate. He had been courted by all parties, but never possessed the confidence of any. He followed no guide, and he had no plan of his own. No one wished him as an adversary; no one trusted him as an associate. He sometimes spoke with boldness; but at heart he was as Chap. XXX.} 1767. Sept. timid as h