"The eloquence of Sir Robert Walpole was plain, perspicuous, forcible, and manly, not courting, yet not always avoiding metaphorical, ornamental, and classical allusions; though addressed to the reason more than to the feelings, yet on some occasions it was highly animated and impassioned. No debater was ever more happy in quickness of apprehension, sharpness of reply, and in turning the arguments of his assailants against themselves."
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PrisonersPrime Ministers of the United KingdomPoliticians from EnglandChancellors of the ExchequerWhig (British political party) politicians
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William Coxe, Memoirs of the Life and Administration of Sir Robert Walpole, Earl of Orford, Volume the First (1798), p. 749
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Robert Walpole
Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford (26 August 1676 – 18 March 1745), known as Sir Robert Walpole, was a British statesman and Whig politician who is generally regarded as the de facto first prime minister of Great Britain.
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