... respect. He never looked for popularity, and he was never tolerant of fools or opponents. But he won a fine epitaph from a Whig who said, He is a gentleman steady in his principles, of nice honour, with abundance of learning, brave as the sword he wears ...

... subject for indiscriminate white washing, but that he was the victim of a good deal of malicious blackwashing on the part of Whig historians-- as well as by Thackeray --cannot for one moment be denied by the fair-minded. It is well to remember, as Mr. rulford ...