From Henry Carey descended that Edmund Kean, who, in our time, transformed himself so marvellously into Shylock, Iago and Othello.
More than one historian has been charged with partiality to Halifax.

The truth is that the memory of Halifax is entitled in an especial manner to the protection of history.

For what distinguishes him from all other English statesmen is this, that, through a long public life, and through frequent and violent revolutions of public feeling, he almost invariably took that view of the great questions of his time which history has finally adopted.

He was called inconstant, because the relative position in which he stood to the contending factions was perpetually varying.

As well might the pole star be called inconstant because it is sometimes to the east and sometimes to the west of the pointers.