. Memoires of the last ten years of the reign of George the Second. . elf on the same side. The parliament met Dec. 2d. Pitt had prepared a long Parliament meets.* That partiality was not cordial, but founded on their hatred to Fox, andprobably from secret intimations that the Princess, who meant to adopt them,was inclined to Pitt, and abhorred Fox for his connection with the Duke ofCumberland. 110 MEMOIRES OF GEORGE THE SECOND. 1756. speech which the King would not read, but sent to him toDecember, shorten it. The House of Commons soon adjourned for there-elections; and during the few days it
. Memoires of the last ten years of the reign of George the Second. . elf on the same side. The parliament met Dec. 2d. Pitt had prepared a long Parliament meets.* That partiality was not cordial, but founded on their hatred to Fox, andprobably from secret intimations that the Princess, who meant to adopt them,was inclined to Pitt, and abhorred Fox for his connection with the Duke ofCumberland. 110 MEMOIRES OF GEORGE THE SECOND. 1756. speech which the King would not read, but sent to him toDecember, shorten it. The House of Commons soon adjourned for there-elections; and during the few days it sat, harmony so fartook place, that there was no division, scarce a debate*: butthe seeds sown in the preceding occurrences soon developedthemselves in the ensuing year. * A spurious speech having been vended for the Kings, it was complained of,I think by Lord Sandwich, in the House of Lords, and the authors punished;Lord Hardwicke still taking the lead very dictatorial]), but occasionally flatteringPitt on the composition of the true one. ////>// /////Y/>//. Y / 7 //////^ MEMOIRES OF THE YEAR 1757. Sine caede et sanguine Pauci. Juv. A century had now passed since reason had begun to attain 1757,that ascendant in the affairs of the world, to conduct which it Character had been granted to man six thousand years ago. If religions of the times- and governments were still domineered by prejudices, if creeds that contradict logic, or tyrannies that enslave multitudes to the caprice of one, were not yet exploded, novel absurdities at least were not broached; or if propagated, produced neither persecutors nor martyrs. Methodism made fools, but they did not arrive to be saints: and the histories of past ages describing massacres and murders, public executions of violence, and the more private though not less horrid arts of poison and daggers, began to be regarded almost as romances. Caesar Borgia seemed little less fabulous than Orlando; and whimsical tenures of H2 MEMOIRES OF 1
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