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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....... .... 61