Memoirs of an old wig / [Anon].

  • Richard Fenton
Date:
1815
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Memoirs of an old wig / [Anon]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    cularly in cleansing the Augaean stable which James had left, and refurnishing it with a stud better suited to the coun- try and the constitution; no wonder then that, in the conflict of so many jarring interests and passions which his labours exposed him to, he should, like the hero of old, his prototype, have done things contradictory, rash, and unkingly; for though I did not then cover his head, I was remarking when he dismissed from * his service the virtuous Somers, to saddle a pack horse * with the seals ; I have felt the violent stretch of prerogative, to load with lands and titles foreign favourites; and if Wigs could blush, I have had fre- quent opportunities of blushing, to see the hero of the Boyne dallying with Bentinck, teaching Sir William Temple to cut asparagus in the Dutch fashion, (certainly not so bad as Augustus playing at marbles), or caning his domestics. * Sir Nathan Wright»
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