Carlisle Patriot
15 July 1843
15 July 1843 Sir Robert Walpole | 15 July 1843 Sir Robert Walpole |
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Sir Robert Walpole. " Every man has a price, " is a saying for which Sir Robert
Walpole has credit. He is supposed to have believed that whatever pretensions a man might advance to probity, a sum might be named, or, advantage offered, for which he would be content to surrender vantage offered, for which he would be content to surrender honour. It would, however, seem that he himself set a high price on his own integrity, for Mr. Pitt used to say that he knew sixty thousand pounds to have been offered to him to save the Earl of Derwentwater, which he refused from a sense of duty. |
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