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nefs and formality with which his nature is fraught. His aduft com- plexion difpofeth him to rigour and feverity, which his admirers palliate with the name of zeal. No man had ever a fuicerer coun- tenance, or more truly reprefent- ing his mind and manners. He hath fume knowledge in the law, very amply fufficient to defend his property at leall : a facility of utterance defcended to him from his father, and improved by a few fprinklings of literature, hath brought himfelf, and feme few admirers, into an opinion of his eloquence. He is every way in- ferior to his brother Guernfey, but chiefly in thofe talents which he moft values and pretends to ; over whom, neverthelefs, he pre- ferveth an afcendant. His great ambition was to be the head of thofe who were called the Church- party; and, indeed, his grave fo- lemn deportment and countenance, feconded by abundance of profef- fions for their fervice, had given many of them an opinion of his veracity, which he interpreted as their fenfe of his judgment and wifdom ; and this miltake lalled till the time of his defection, of which it was partly the caufe ; but then it plainly appeared, that he had not credit to bring over one fingle proi'elyte, to keep himfelf in countenance.
^he fcllo^vcing chara&er is al/o hy the fame hand, and an injlance equally J} rang, of the fame party biindnffs.
Sir Robert Walpole wns a per- fon much carefled by the oppofers of Queen Anne and her minillrv, having been firft drawn into their party by his iiidiiterence to any
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principles, and afterwards kept fteady by the lofs of his place [of fecretary at war.] His bold for- ward countenance, altogether a ftranger to that infirmity which makes men balhful, joined to a readinefs of fpeaking in public, hath juftly intitled him, among thofe of his faction, to be a fort of leader of the fecond form. The reader muft excufe me for being fo particular about one, who is other- wife altogether obfcore.
// /'/ not foreign to the plan of this article to infert the follo-i.ving de- J'cription of the court o.nd perfon of ^ Elizabeth, from the journey into England, of Paul Hcntzer, in 1598.
of a much deeper turn than the author of this itine- rary feems to ha've been, may find matter of agreeable refiedion in his a count of En^Jand . as it ap- peared under ^ Elizabeth. That great princefs had as much fiate and 7nagnificence in her court, as ^vifdom and fteadinefs in her go'vernment. She kne-iv that it n.Kas ncceffary to firike the ima- gination as ^.L'ell as to purfue the real interejl of her people. Thus Jhe thre-iv a 'veil o'ver the foibles of her perfonal charader, and prevented the ^veak ■■vanity of an old coquette fro7n ecUpfing the -vir- tues of a great ^een. Our tra- 'ueller is a very minute painter ; but e'ven minute things^ tvhere they concern great charaders, feem to quit their nature, and become things of confequence ; btfides that they bring us nearer to the times and per ions they defcribe. It iviU be equally agreeable in kis charac- ter oj the Englijh, to trace the difference njohich increafe of riches, refinement, and e%'(n time iffelft
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