The narrow, obstinate and ungenerous mind of George had been fed on high notions of the power he might exert.

He had been taught the kingship of Bolingbroke's glowing picture; and a reading in manuscript of the seventh chapter of Blackstone's first book can only have confirmed the ideals he found there.

Nor was it obvious that a genuine kingship would have been worse than the oligarchy of the great Whig families.
What made it worse, and finally impossible, was the character of the king.

The pathetic circumstances of his old age have combined somewhat to obscure the viciousness of his maturity.

He was excessively ignorant and as obstinate as arbitrary.