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THE OLD CAUSE: THREE BIOGRAPHICAL STUDIES IN WHIGGISM

by John Carswell

Published by The Cresset Press Ltd.. 1st. 1954

Almost very good condition. The lives of Wharton, Dodington and Fox which span the century and a quarter that elapsed between the Restoration and the Regency. Black cloth, gilt title to spine. 402 pages (including index). B/w plates.

Spine slightly bumped. Light spotting to covers. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Foxing to textblock and pale page browning. Light musty smell to contents.

Stock no. 1330828

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Contents

  • Preface
  • Chronological Table
  • I The Whigs (1679-1806)
  • THOMAS WHARTON
  • II A Puritan Childhood (1648-1673)
  • III The Emancipated Precisian (1673-1679)
  • IV Lilliburlero (1679-1688)
  • V Mr Comptroller Wharton (1688-1698)
  • VI The Kit-Cat Club (1698-1708)
  • VII Swift: and the Last Four years (1708-1714)
  • VIII Pisgah (1715)
  • GEORGE DODDINGTON
  • IX The Promised Land (1715-1721)
  • X The Host of Eastbury (1721-1729)
  • XI The Opposition (1729-1737)
  • XII The Sharing of Power (1738-1749)
  • XIV Low Water (1751-1757)
  • XV High Tide (1757-1762)
  • CHARLES JAMES FOX
  • XVI The Man of Parts
  • XVII The Man of Pleasure
  • XVIII The Man of Feeling
  • XIX The Man of the People
  • XX The Leader and the Led
  • XXI The Historian and Hero
  • Appendices
  • References
  • Sources
  • Index

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