Some of the Whigs now spoke of him as bitterly as they had ever spoken of either of his uncles.

He was a Stuart after all, and was not a Stuart for nothing.

Like the rest of the race, he loved arbitrary power.
In Holland, he had succeeded in making himself, under the forms of a republican polity, scarcely less absolute than the old hereditary Counts had been.

In consequence of a strange combination of circumstances, his interest had, during a short time, coincided with the interest of the English people: but though he had been a deliverer by accident, he was a despot by nature.

He had no sympathy with the just resentments of the Whigs.