The Endless Adventure: Personalities and Practical Politics in Eighteenth-Century England

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Book by F. S. Oliver; Houghton Mifflin Company, 1931. 428 pgs.

Title Page

Contents of the First Volume

Contents of the Second Volume

Illustrations

I.--The General Plan.

Iii.--Some Reflections on Walpole's Career.

Vi.

Vii.--The Case of Giovanpagolo of Perugia.

Viii.--Some Modern Dilemmas.

Ix.--A Digression on Several Words That Most People Use Reluctantly.

Xvii.--Lenin as Head of Government.

Xviii.--How All the Benefits of a Revolution Are Likely to Be Lost If the Politicians Fail to Gain The Upper Hand in Time.

Xx.--In Praise of Politicians.

Book Two From the Flight of James Ii. To the Accession of George I. (1688-1714)

Iv.--How the Duke of Marlborough Was Dismissed And Disgraced (1711).

V.--How the Tory Government Proceeded to Negotiate For Peace with Louis Xiv. (1711-1713).

Vi. How the Tory Government Was Weakened By The Dissensions of Harley and Bolingbroke (1710-1714).

Vii.--How, Owing to the Want of a Leader with a Clear Policy, the Tory Party Failed to Take Advantage Of Its Opportunities, Either in Opposition or in Office (1708-174).

Book Three Stanhope and Sunderland (1714-1721)

V.--How the Old Tory and Whig Parties Lost Their Distinguishing, Marks After the Failure of The Rebellion (1715-1720).

Vi.--How the Duke of Orleans Became Regent Of France on the Death of Louis Xiv., and How The Policy of Cardinal Dubois Led to a Good Understanding with England (1715-1723).

Viii.--How Alberoni Rose to Be Prime Minister Of Spain and a Cardinal, and How His Efforts To Carry Out the Queen's Policy Ended in Disaster (1714-1719).

X.--Concerning the Characters of Alberoni and Dubois.

Xiii.--Concerning the Bursting of Two Bubbles (1720).

Book Four Townshend and Walpole (1721-1727)

Iii.--Of Walpole's Aims and Methods, and How He Dealt with His Rivals and Opponents (1721-1742).

Vi.--How at a Meeting with Walpole Bolingbroke Made an Offer of His Services Which Was Rejected (1723).

Viii.

Ix.--How Bolingbroke, Having Failed to Recover His Peerage Rights, Determined to Engage in Opposition (1725).

Xiv.--How Balance of Power is Essential to The Sovereign Independence of States, and How The Endeavour to Maintain It Has Led to Endless Wars.

Xvii.--How the Danger of a General European War Was Averted, and How Bolingbroke Again Failed In His Bid for Office (1726-1727).

Xviii.--In What Respects the Views of Townshend And Walpole Differed in Regard to the Treaties Of Vienna and Hanover (1725-1727).

Xix.--Of the Various Stages Through Which Walpole's Ideas Regarding Foreign Affairs Passed, and How He Came to Add a Fourth Fold to His Original Policy (1700-1727).

Xx.--Of George I's Character and of the Quality Of His Kingship.

Book Five The Accession of George The Second and Queen Caroline (june 1727)

Vi.--How Walpole, Aided by the Queen, Overcame The King's Aversion, Supplanted Compton And Arrived at a Stronger Position Than He Was In During the Previous Reign (june 18-July 15, 1727).

Vii.--Concerning the Character of George the Second.

Book Six Walpole's Prestige in Europe (1727-1735)

Iii.--Concerning Some of the Characters in The European Comedy.

V.--How the War with Spain Dragged on After The Accession of George the Second; How Britain, With Fleury's Assistance, Ended It by the Treaty Of Seville, and How the Emperor Was Left Out in The Cold (june 1727-November 1729.

Vi.--How Townshend Differed from His Colleagues, Quarrelled with Walpole, and Resigned (may 1730).

Vii.--How Walpole Made the Second Treaty Of Vienna, and How Fleury Was Left Out in The Cold (july 1731).

Viii.--Concerning the War of the Polish Succession And How It Divided Europe into Three Fresh Groups (february 1733-October 1735).

Ix.--How Walpole Dealt with the Dutch and with The Emperor, and How He Overcame His Difficulties At Home (midsummer 1733-August 1735).

X.--Of the War Party in France, and How Fleury's Difficulties Differed from Walpole's.

Xi.--How Fleury Made the Third Treaty of Vienna, And How Walpole Was Left Out in the Cold (1735).

Book Seven A Domestic Reverse And A Recovery (1730-1735)

Viii.--Concerning Party Politics and Private Conduct.

Ix.--How in Eight Weeks Walpole Regained Mastery Of the House of Commons (april-June 1733).

X.--How Walpole Broke Up a Dangerous Conspiracy In the House of Lords (may-June 1733).

Xi.--Concerning Newcastle's Pre-Eminence in The Election Campaign, and How Much He Was Helped by the Failure of His Opponents' Attempt To Revive the Excise Agitation.

Xii.

Xiii.

Xiv.--How Bolingbroke Failed a Second Time, When He Tried to Revive the Fiscal Controversy; And A Third Time, When He Tried to Make Party Capital Out of the Dismissals of Lord Cobham And the Duke of Bolton.

Xv.--How He Failed a Fourth Time, When He Played A Popular Card and Demanded the Exclusion Of 'Place-Men' from the House of Commons.

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