1799), i.

35-40; also _Historical Memoirs_ (London, 1836), iv.

516-518.] After sixty-seven years of it, he has flung his big burdens,--English crowns, Hanoverian crownlets, sulkinesses, indignations, lean women and fat, and earthly contradictions and confusions,--fairly off him; and lies there.
The man had his big burdens, big honors so called, absurd enough some of them, in this world; but he bore them with a certain gravity and discretion: a man of more probity, insight and general human faculty than he now gets credit for.

His word was sacred to him.

He had the courage of a Welf, or Lion-Man; quietly royal in that respect at least.
His sense of equity, of what was true and honorable in men and things, remained uneffaced to a respectable degree; and surely it had resisted much.