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...Ashley Marshall The Unpublished Letters of Henry St. John, First Viscount Bolingbroke , ed. Lashmore-Davies Adrian , advisory ed. Goldie Mark , 5 vols . ( London : Pickering and Chatto , 2013 ). ; Vol. 1 : Pp. lxx + 379 . Vol. 2 : Pp. 429 . Vol. 3 : Pp. 397 . Vol. 4 : Pp...

... Pembroke College, Cambridge I Henry St. John (1678 – 1751), later first Viscount Bolingbroke, was born on 16 September 1678, the son of Henry St. John and Mary Rich, and was descended from an ancient family whose roots went back to the Norman Conquest. His paternal grandmother, Johanna St. John...

... the revolutionary new thinking of commerce and industry. An influential formulation of these opposed positions was spelled out in 1968 by Isaac Kramnick in Bolingbroke and His Circle: The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole, where Bolingbroke is portrayed as the chief ideologist for a Tory tradition...

..., became friends and aligned themselves with the Country politics of the Patriot Opposition.5 From the Opposition perspective, articulated most forcefully by Bolingbroke, the ideal of a “mixed government” had been compromised by Court Whigs who allowed faction to disrupt...

... No Free Assembly: More Fully Discovered By a Collection of Letters and Papers of the Learned Dr. Vargas . . . procured by the Right Honourable Sir William Trumbull’s grandfather, Envoy at Brussels in the reign of King James the First (London, 1697). HMC, Downshire, 1.2:846. Bolingbroke later...

..., our last two numbers were special issues: selected papers from the thirteenth David Nichol Smith Seminar, edited by Jocelyn Harris and Shef Rogers (32.2), followed by pre- viously unpublished correspondence between Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, and Sir William Trumbull, edited by Adrian...

...., 1995), p. 442; and Isaac Kramnick, Bolingbroke and His Circle: The Politics of Nostalgia in the Age of Walpole (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ., 1968), p. 224. 2. Lewis, “The Beggar’s Rags to Riches and Other Dramatic Transformations,” in John Gay...

... or oppositional writing has the power to affect lives and for the better. But we have to acknowledge Swift as the radical Tory critic, the master of propaganda, the devoted servant of the admin- istration (of Oxford and Bolingbroke from 1711 to 1714), the writer of texts that deeply disturbed...

...? Was Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, who once sought to promote Tory interests by aligning himself with the king in exile, and who flirted with the Stuart cause in the 1730s, a Jacobite? Is unfailing adherence to the principle of indefeasible hereditary right the sign of a Jacobite...

.... Hitting only the high spots of Rousseau’s biography, we find Hill serving as an arborist (16); scrambling after a post in the British Museum (180); penning pseudonymous works after losing Bolingbroke’s favor (196); toiling for Bute as a horticulturalist (206–10); promoting honey- and valerian-based...

... to a venerated classical source. Thus, Henry St. John, first Viscount Bolingbroke, appears on page 1 with the entry “On the Study and Use of History, by Ld. Bolingbroke,” whereas “Putrefaction, remarks upon, by Dr. Hunter” is found on page 58. Certain aspects of Bacon's organization appear to be modeled...

... of Tory polemic between 1710 and 1714 and one of Swift's closest friends during his prime, was recruited not by Swift but for Swift by the Harley-Bolingbroke ministry (104), and that Edward Waters, best known for being imprisoned in Ireland after publishing Swift's Proposal for the Universal Use of Irish...

... as Hidden Grand Master. 1 Schuchard finds Masonic politics expressed in an extraordinary range of writers, from the Tory- Jacobite side (such as Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope, John Arbuthnot, Richard Savage, Duke of Wharton, Earls of Orrery, Viscount Bolingbroke, Charles Wogan, William Meston, Allan Ramsay...

... 119 120   Eighteenth-Century Life Bolingbroke, First Viscount, Henry St. John. The Unpublished Letters, ed. Adrian Lashmore-Davies, advisory ed. Mark Goldie (London: Pickering and Chatto, 2013). Vol. 1: Pp. lxx + 379. Vol. 2: Pp. 429. Vol. 3: Pp. 397. Vol. 4: Pp. 438. Vol. 5: Pp...

... bequeathed to Bolingbroke, would have included the Adagia.26 According to William Kupersmith, Pope may have drawn on the “Adages” for folklore about don- keys when devising the Dunciad illustrations. Elsewhere, Pope records his reverence for Erasmus in several places, most famously in the “Essay...

... Univ., 1977), 157 –68. 16. See Henry St. John, Viscount Bolingbroke, Letters on the Study and Use of History (London: Alexander Murray, 1870), esp. 35–36. 17. Gabriel Bonnot, Abbé de Mably, De la manière d’écrire l’histoire (Paris, 1783), 124–26. 18. Smith, Lectures on Rhetoric...

... was as the posthumous editor of Bolingbroke’s allegedly atheistic philosophi- cal works in 1754, hence Churchill’s sneering remark on “daring Infi dels,” and the “rewards” they could not otherwise hope for in “a pious reign.”31 The clear, scathing irony is reserved, by the repetition of “simple...

..., innocuous, it is typical of much popular litera- ture in blurring into the carnivalesque. As a kind of irreverent, plebeian version of Bolingbroke’s “patriot king,” Henry VIII is cast in the role of the populist hero, walking the streets of London incognito until he ends up, in a quasi-egalitarian...

... such as Swift and Henry St. John, Lord Bolingbroke, found it worth their while to engage in ideological battles against, fi rst, the Whigs promot- ing the War of Spanish Succession, and later, Walpole and his regime. Downie explains the characteristics of successful propaganda, but cautions...

... name appeared on thirty items, according to the ESTC, one of which, Verses upon the late D——ss of M was the suppressed “Atossa” passage from Pope’s Of the Characters of Women, thought to be about the Duchess of Bucking- ham and released by Lord Bolingbroke, who sought to damage the poet’s 122...