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During his lifetime Lord Lansdowne / Shelburne was blamed for insincerity and duplicity, and he incurred the deepest unpopularity, but the accusations came chiefly from those who were dissatisfied with his preference of principles to party, and if he had had a more unscrupulous regard to his personal ambition, his career as a statesman would have had more outward success. He was cynical in his estimates of character, but no statesman of his time possessed more enlightened political views, while his friendship with those of his contemporaries eminent in science and literature must be allowed considerable weight in qualifying our estimate of the moral defects with which he has been credited. Learn more here ... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Shelburne#Military_and_political_career
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Plain and simple, he was hypocritical.
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