The Old Cause: Three Biographical Studies in Whiggism

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• Title Page iii
• PREFACE v
• CONTENTS ix
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi
• CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE xiii
• I - THE WHIGS (1679-1806) 1
• THOMAS WHARTON 25
• II - A PURITAN CHILDHOOD (1648-1673) 27
• III - THE EMANCIPATED PRECISIAN (1673-1679) 39
• IV - LILLIBURLERO (1679-1688) 52
• V - MR. COMPTROLLER WHARTON (1688-1698) 71
• VI - THE KIT-CAT CLUB (1698-1708) 89
• VII - SWIFT: AND THE LAST FOUR YEARS (1708-1714) 105
• VIII - PISGAH (1715) 118
• GEORGE DODINGTON 129
• IX - THE PROMISED LAND (1715-1721) 131

• Title Page iii
• PREFACE v
• CONTENTS ix
• LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS xi
• CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE xiii
• I - THE WHIGS (1679-1806) 1
• THOMAS WHARTON 25
• II - A PURITAN CHILDHOOD (1648-1673) 27
• III - THE EMANCIPATED PRECISIAN (1673-1679) 39
• IV - LILLIBURLERO (1679-1688) 52
• V - MR. COMPTROLLER WHARTON (1688-1698) 71
• VI - THE KIT-CAT CLUB (1698-1708) 89
• VII - SWIFT: AND THE LAST FOUR YEARS (1708-1714) 105
• VIII - PISGAH (1715) 118
• GEORGE DODINGTON 129
• IX - THE PROMISED LAND (1715-1721) 131
• X - THE HOST OF EASTBURY (1721-1729) 150
• XI - THE OPPOSITION (1729-1737) 167
• XII - THE SHARING OF POWER (1738-1749) 187
• XIII - THE TREASURER OF THE CHAMBERS (1749-1751) 209
• XIV - LOW WATER (1751-1757) 226
• XV - HIGH TIDE (1757-1762) 248
• CHARLES JAMES FOX 267
• XVI - THE MAN OF PARTS 269
• XVII - THE MAN OF PLEASURE 287
• XVIII - THE MAN OF FEELING 300
• XIX - THE MAN OF THE PEOPLE 313
• XX - THE LEADER AND THE LED 324
• XXI - THE HISTORIAN AND HERO 340
• APPENDIX I - LILLIBURLERO 353
• APPENDIX II - THE DODINGTON PAPERS 360
• REFERENCES 364
• SOURCES 377
• Index 387