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George Bancroft, History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent, Vol. 4, 15th edition. 2 0 Browse Search
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first day of November, 1748, two months after the peace of America and Europe had been ratified, the Earl of Halifax, then just thirty-two years old, entered upon his long period of service as First Commissioner for the Plantations. He was fond of splendor, profuse, and in debt; passionate, overbearing, and self-willed; of moderate sense, and ignorant of the world. Walpole's George II. Familiar with a feeble class of belles-lettres, he loved to declaim long passages from Prior; Richard Cumberland's Memoirs of Himself. but his mind was not imbued with political theories, or invigorated by the lessons of a manly philosophy. As a public man, he was fond of authority; without sagacity, yet unwilling to defer to any chap. II.} 1748. Nov. one; and not fearing application, he preferred a post of business to a sinecure. To the imagination of the British people the American plantations appeared as boundless and inhospitable deserts, dangerous from savages and dismally wild:—Halifax