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* Robert Walpole was the son of Horatio Walpole, diplomat and auditor-general of the plantation revenues, nephew of Sir Robert Walpole, and cousin of Horace, the wit and letter writer.
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There you have Horatio Walpole, the man-about-town, almost precisely echoing Horatius Flaccus, the man-about-town; and this (if you will bring your minds to it) is just the sort of passage a Roman colonist in Britain would open upon, out of his parcel of new books, and read, and understand, some eighteen hundred years ago.
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The address to the King approving of the convention was moved by Horatio Walpole, the diplomatist, brother of Sir Robert.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871
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Horatio Walpole declared that the outbreak of war between England and any great continental State would be certain to be followed by a new blow struck by the Pretender and his followers.
A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4) Justin McCarthy 1871
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Horatio Walpole, subsequently the sixth Earl of Orford.
Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842
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Horatio Walpole, afterwards Lord Walpole, a set of his works in quarto, richly bound; which are now in the library at
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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Horatio Walpole, son to the late great Sir Robert Walpole, who is very studious, and an admirer of all the liberal arts and sciences; amongst the rest he admires printing.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2 Horace Walpole 1757
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[T.S.]] [Footnote 7: Horatio Walpole, secretary to the English Embassy at the treaty of Gertruydenberg.
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Jonathan Swift 1706
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If M 'Dudley wrote to him that I said, Horatio Walpole had tvrit me a letter y hut I shauld not regard ity he tvrote Jam a dotvnright lye. M'
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(Captain General), and Horatio Walpole (Secretary of War).
The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. — Volume 09 Contributions to The Tatler, The Examiner, The Spectator, and The Intelligencer Jonathan Swift 1706
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