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Excerpt from Memoir of Robert, Earl Nugent: With Letters, Poems, and Appendices
Purposes. One frankly acknowledges it to be the case, and in the other the coincidences are too strong to be resisted. The indict ment and the apologia, however, do not meet on the same plane. I give them simply because I believe that each of them possesses an interest of its own, and with no attempt to examine into the truth of either, although it appears to me quite consistent with an optimism which does not transcend the bounds of reason to attach the higher credit to the political record as given by Dean Tucker. It is in the letters that I venture to believe the main interest will be found. That is to say, not in Nugent himself so much as in those brilliant and distinguished men with whom he was associated. The mere mention of the names of Pope, Goldsmith, Chesterfield, Pulteney, Newcastle, Dunk Halifax, Pitt, Chatham, Hardwicke, Grenville, Horace Walpole, Lord John Hervey, Henry Pelham, Henry Fox (the father of Charles James), Wyndham, not to swell the list any further, is an indication that the correspondence is likely to contain matter of high interest. The speeches, of which I give a few as specimens, clearly show, unless, indeed, it should be contended that another composed them, that he was a man of.
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