Hume, David, "A Character of Sir Robert Walpole"

Abstract

David Hume portrayed Sir Robert Walpole, a Liberal considered as the first British Prime Minister. In the form of an essay entitled "A Character of Sir Robert Walpole", the 13-line -description was published in January 1742 when Walpole resigned the following month.

"A Character of Sir Robert Walpole" (1742), in Essays
Moral, Political and Literary (Liberty Fund ed.), 574-576.