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Excerpt from The Xviiith Century in London: An Account of Its Social Life and Arts
As it was, from the time when Anne came to the throne to the day When George III. Died, government by the people had gradually become an accom plished fact; Harley was a popular Minister; Walpole was representative of the great middle classes, with ideas and tastes not very dissimilar from their own; Chatham, the people's favourite, soon replaced the attempted dictatorship of Bute, and held even George 111. With his Bute-inspired ideas of government in check; and during the later years of George's reign, although there were not wanting phases of retrograde policy, the principle survived, and culminated in the genius of the younger Pitt who represented the popular idea during the latter years of the reign, as his father had done during the earlier. This change in the administration of the country re?ected itself both on the classes and the masses, as well as on all kinds of institutions and customs.
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