Walpole required that no minister other than himself have private dealings with the king, and also that when the cabinet had agreed on a policy, all ministers must defend it in public or resign.

Wharton's club came to an end in 1721 when George I, under the influence of Wharton's political enemies ( namely Robert Walpole ) put forward a Bill " against ' horrid impieties '" ( or immorality ), aimed at the Hellfire Club.

Walpole had planned to become a clergyman but abandoned the idea when, as the eldest surviving son in the family, he became the heir to his father's estate.

Walpole, a polarising figure, had many opponents, the most important of whom were in the Country Party, such as Lord Bolingbroke ( who had been his political enemy since the days of Queen Anne ) and William Pulteney ( a capable Whig statesman who felt snubbed when Walpole failed to include him in the Cabinet ).

In 1742 when the House of Commons was prepared to determine the validity of an allegedly rigged by-election in Chippenham, Walpole and others agreed to treat the issue as a Motion of No Confidence.

After very strained relations between 1727 and 1732, the situation improved between 1732 and 1737, when Sir Robert Walpole supported Spain during the War of Polish Succession.

But the causes of the problems remained and when the opposition against Walpole grew, so did the anti-Spanish sentiment amongst the British public.

The Oppidan Houses are named Godolphin House, Jourdelay's, ( both built as such c. 1720 ), Hawtrey House, Durnford House, ( the first two built as such by the Provost and Fellows, 1845, when the school was increasing in numbers and needed more centralised control ), The Hopgarden, South Lawn, Waynflete, Evans ', Keate House, Warre House, Villiers House, Common Lane House, Penn House, Walpole House, Cotton Hall, Wotton House, Holland House, Mustians, Angelo's, Manor House, Farrer House, Baldwin's Bec, The Timbralls, and Westbury.

The Prince of Wales apparently " was often inconvenienced by the ferry when returning from hunting in Richmond park and asked Walpole to use his influence by supporting the bridge.

In 1777 the British government had the opportunity to buy an art collection of international stature, when the descendants of Sir Robert Walpole put his collection up for sale.

It replaced a grant of 1735 that awarded them Township No. 3 ( now Walpole, New Hampshire ), but which was ruled invalid when the border between Massachusetts and New Hampshire was redrawn to satisfy prior claims by the descendants of John Mason.

The grant was renewed in 1761, when the town was renamed Walpole, in honor of Sir Robert Walpole, 1st Earl of Orford, and first Prime Minister of Great Britain.

Anne fought stubbornly to keep her favourite minister, but when the Duke of Somerset and the Earl of Pembroke refused to act without ' the General nor the Treasurer ', Harley resigned: Henry Boyle replaced him as Secretary of State, and his fellow Whig, Robert Walpole, replaced St John as Secretary at War.

By 1751, when Brown was beginning to be widely known, Horace Walpole wrote somewhat slightingly of Brown's work at Warwick Castle:

With Walpole, he served as a founding governor of the popular charity the Foundling Hospital when it opened its doors in 1739.

The modern Terracotta Room was used as the dining room when Sir Robert Walpole was Prime Minister.

At the time, the park was on the outskirts of London and remained an isolated area well into the 18th century, when it was known as a haunt of highwaymen and thieves ; Horace Walpole was one of many to be robbed there.

However, when he found himself neglected, he opposed the proposition of Walpole to discharge the debts of the civil list, and in April 1725 was dismissed from his sinecure.

Horace Walpole asserts that when Pulteney wished to withdraw from the peerage it was forced upon him by the king, and another chronicler of the times records that when Walpole and Pulteney met in the House of Lords, the one as Earl of Orford, the other as Earl of Bath, the remark was made by Orford: " Here we are, my lord, the two most insignificant fellows in England.

Horace Walpole recorded the joke that " Granville and Bath were met going about the streets, calling ' Odd Man ', as the hackney chairmen do when they want a partner ", and a contemporary pamphlet satirically praised him for " the most wise and honest of all administrations, the minister having ... never transacted one rash thing ; and, what is more marvellous, left as much money in the Ty as he found in it.

He had style: he held his reins in a loose bunch at the third button of his checked Epsom surtout, and when the horses leaned at a curve, as if bent by the force of a gale, he leaned with them.

If the column load is gradually increased, a condition is reached in which the straight form of equilibrium becomes so-called neutral equilibrium, and a small lateral force will produce a deflection that does not disappear and the column remains in this slightly bent form when the lateral force is removed.

The discouragement felt by Katayama as regards his prospects at Nissan, led to his going on the verge of resigning, when Datsun ’ s 1958 Australian Mobilgas victories vaunted him, as leader of the winning Datsun teams, to national prominence in a Japan bent on regaining international status.

Woodfull was struck when he was bent over his bat and wicket, and not when upright as often imagined.

Therefore, a king came riding upon a horse when he was bent on war and rode upon a donkey when he wanted to point out he was coming in peace.

In 1996, Thomas Lehman and Langston rejected the scavenging hypothesis, pointing out that the lower jaw bent so strongly downwards that even when it closed completely a gap of over five centimeters remained between it and the upper jaw, very different from the hooked beaks of specialized scavenging birds.

The board is bent upwards starting at the middle, so that when laid flat the nose and tail are significantly off the ground.

These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to feed when they are hungrie.

Zanni ’ s back is arched when he stands up and his knees are bent and apart with splayed feet.

The main purpose of the gel is to prevent water intrusion if the buffer tube is breached, but the gel also buffers the fibers against mechanical damage when the tube is bent around corners during installation, or flexed.

This theory was confirmed in 1919 during a solar eclipse, when Arthur Eddington observed the light from stars passing close to the Sun was slightly bent, so that stars appeared slightly out of position.

In general relativity, light follows the curvature of spacetime, hence when light passes around a massive object, it is bent.

They are considered ready for plucking when they break on being bent.

This optical phenomenon occurs because rays of light are strongly bent when they pass through air layers of different temperatures in a steep thermal inversion where an atmospheric duct has formed.

On the subject Bishop writes: The greatest obstacle to our comprehension of Finnegans Wake been ... the failure on the part of readers to believe that Joyce really meant what he said when he spoke of the book as a " reconstruction of the nocturnal life " and an " imitation of the dream-state "; and as a consequence readers have perhaps too easily exercised on the text an unyielding literalism bent on finding a kind of meaning in every way antithetical to the kind of meaning purveyed in dreams Bishop has also somewhat brought back into fashion the theory that the Wake is about a single sleeper ; arguing that it is not " the ' universal dream ' of some disembodied global everyman, but a reconstruction of the night – and a single night – as experienced by ' one stable somebody ' whose ' earwitness ' on the real world is coherently chronological.

The latter festival came to scandalous prominence in 62 BC, when the politician Clodius Pulcher was tried for his intrusion on the rites, allegedly bent on the seduction of Julius Caesar's wife, whom Caesar later divorced because " Caesar's wife must be above suspicion ".

The park fell into hard times in the early 1990s when a tornado literally bent their Ferris wheel in half, and with the rides removed, the park served as grounds for a monthly arts and crafts exposition.

This is a fast calculation, but there can be a noticeable discontinuity between adjacent triangles when these triangles are at an angle to the plane of the screen ( see figure at right – textures ( the checker boxes ) appear bent ).

The arm-tefillin is laid on the inner side of the bare left arm, two finger breadths above the elbow, so that when the arm is bent the tefillin faces towards the heart.

After being locked away in the Memphis studio, when the company embarked on the “ Hit the Road, Stax !” tour of 1967, The Beatles sent limos to the airport and bent down to kiss Steve Cropper's ring.

* Birefringence results when isotropic materials are deformed such that the isotropy is lost in one direction ( i. e., stretched or bent ).

They also play a role in shock absorption, and may be cracked, or torn, when the knee is forcefully rotated and / or bent.

Eddie is sometimes fascinated by her, especially in the pilot episode when she bent over while wearing hot pants.