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Rh in the Mews accounts. Many an abuse has been perpetuated on no better grounds.

Such was Charles II.;

and such are the materials from which David Hume and Sir Walter Scott, Mr. Fox and Mr. Macaulay, have drawn in part their characters of the King. But there are other materials for a true understanding of the man,

and these are his sayings, which Walpole loved to repeat, and of which I have made a collection in the following chapter.