The Leading Facts of English History

ything about England, nor did he desire to know anything of it. He could not speak a word of the language of the country he was called to govern, and he

he affairs of the nation. He trusted everything to his Whig friends (S532) and let

said of them that they resembled a barrel of their own beer, froth at the top, dregs at the bottom, but thoroughly sound

ney, and he was a man of unquestioned courage. But they also saw more than this, for they realized that though George I might be as heavy, dull, and wooden as the figurehead of an old-fashioned ship