CHARLES JAMES FOX

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

Stephen Fox.-His Career Abroad and at Home.-His Wealth, and the

Use he made of it.-His Domestic History.-Henry Fox.-His Mar-

riage. His Opposition to the Marriage Act.-His Style of Speaking.

-Outbreak of the Seven Years' War.-Fox in the Pay-office, and Pitt

Master of the Nation.-Accession of George the Third, and Downfall

of Newcastle and Pitt. - Bute's Unpopularity. Fox undertakes to

carry the Peace through Parliament.-The Methods by which he made

good his Promise.-He Retires from the House of Commons with the

Title of Lord Holland.-His Quarrel with Lord Shelburne and with

Rigby. Hatred with which Lord Holland was regarded by the

Country.......

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CHAPTER II.

1749-1768.

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Lord Holland in his own Family.-Birth of Charles James Fox.-His

Childhood.-Wandsworth.-Eton and Paris.—Dr. Barnard.-The Musæ

Etonenses.-Picture at Holland House.-Lady Sarah Lennox.-Fox at

Oxford.-Tour in Italy.-Fox's Industry and Accomplishments.-His

Return to England.......

CHAPTER III.

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London Society at the Time that Fox entered the Great World.—Its

Narrow Limits and Agreeable Character. Prevalent Dissipation

and Frivolity. The Duke of Grafton.-Rigby.-Lord Weymouth.-—

Lord Sandwich.-Fox in the Inner Circle of Fashion.-Lord March.-

Brooks's Club.-Gaming.-Extravagance. - Drinking and Gout.

George the Third's Temperate and Hardy Habits.—State of Religion

among the Upper Classes.-Political Life in 1768.-Sinecures.-Pen-

sions and Places, English, Irish, and Colonial.-Other Forms of Cor-

ruption. The Venality of Parliament.-Low Morality of Public Men,

and Discontent of the Nation.-Office and Opposition.-Fox's Political

Teachers.......
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