... those days soundness in theology was held to be of less importance than orthodoxy in politics, and his devotion to Whig principles and the Whig party was sufficient to cover his heresy and obtain for him the highest church preferments. Pope speaks of him ...

... seems to have been originally designed in its present form chiefly to explain why he left the Tories and took office under the Whig Earl Grey; a change which, according to Lord Palmerston's chivalrous sense of honour, could only be justified by the fact that ...