Note 74 — JOURNAL OF ELIZABETH LADY HOLLAND
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His History of James II., which was published, after his death, in 1808, with a preface by Lord Holland. Lord Brougham, in his Statesmen of the time of George III., says of his writings, ‘The practice of composition seems never to have been familiar to Mr. Fox.... His History shows the same want of expertness in composition. The style is pure and correct, but cold and lifeless; it is even somewhat abrupt and discontinuous, so little does it flow naturally or with ease.’