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and it might be supposed could want nothing to die in peace with his own mind but to retrieve his character or to leave his family but a good name. If he had had the smallest spark of elevation within him, the distresses of his country, the part which he was called upon to act, and the height which it might be supposed he had in view, would have excited it, but "Naturam expellas furcâ, tamen usque recurret."[1]
- ↑ In the "Narrative of the Changes in the Ministry, 1765-1767," by the Duke of Newcastle, it is stated that he objected to the appointment of Lord George Sackville to be Vice-Treasurer of Ireland.—"Narrative," edited by Miss Mary Bateson for the Royal Historical Society (Camden Series), 39, 41, 96.
