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"because ridicule is not so delicate as compassion & because the objects that make us laugh are infinitely more numerous than those that make us weep, there is a much greater latitude for comic than tragic artifices"
Joseph Addison, Spectator 44 #April 1711
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#OnThisDay 1794 there was no drawing room at court, so Queen Charlotte dressed at 1pm & then spent the time till dinner sitting for her portrait - possibly this one by Gainsborough of that year...
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One of the odder depictions of John Wilkes, here presented as Hercules cleaning the Augean Stables, produced in anticipation of his expected return to #Parliament in 1768 & his claim to wish to clear out #Corruption
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"You will be entertained with a prophecy which my Lord Chesterfield has found in the 35th chapter of Ezekiel, which clearly promises us victory over the French"
Horace Walpole to Richard Bentley, #OnThisDay 1755
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A name to conjure with: Cornet Wildgoose, one of the officers wounded at the battle of Almenara in 1710
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Back to the #barbers #18thcentury style...

"she moved with a simplicity that proved her to be unconscious of the charm which bound the world to her attraction" [Morning Chronicle]: died at 3.30am #OnThisDay 1806, Georgiana, duchess of Devonshire
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John Wilkes' behaviour divided even his most loyal friends. In spring 1769 William Fitzherbert complained:
"I would have gone upon my knees for his pardon... I love him, but in the light he stands I will do as much as any man in England to oppose him"
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@TheVictCommons He wasn't the only parliamentarian notable for developing a new dog breed. According to one tradition, the 2nd duke of Newcastle bred his Clumber Spaniels from animals rescued from the French Revolution
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Wading through an index & struck by successive entries for Robert Walpole:
entertains a large company
description of house & estate
illness of
unpopular (due to the Excise)
mobbed
burnt in effigy
The life of an #18thcentury #politician in 6 movements
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