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... whilst reading too near the candle. The Great Cham of Literature, who, when reporting in Parliament, never allowed the Whigs to have the best of it, died at No. 7. Bolt Court, not far away. A number of historic and interesting houses are to be found ...
... describing the funeral, says that Bishop Atterbury, one of those Tories who had loved and honoured the most accomplished of Whigs, met the coach, and led the procession, by torchlight, round the shrine of St. Edward and the graves of the Plantagenets, to ...
... of his chronic lethargy. During the election campaign of 1880, a journalist once went to Devonshire House for the stalwart Whig's address. He was shown into a room, where, seated upon a high chair, he saw a big florid man, without his coat and vest, his ...
... tip ; (2) the mariner. And the mariner is what the Duke prefers. Since his accession to the peerage Lord Hartington, as the Whig leader is still familiarly :nown, is much more debonnair. He has lost that shufflin , ruggedness which distinguished him in ...
... home of little wigs and big wigs as at the establishment of Mr. Charles H. Fox, who has probably wigged everybody except the Whigs. A queer, odd place you find this great workshop and store of wigs. On the walls of Mr. Fox's private room are the portraits ...
... Britain in 410 A.D. They called him Tyler because he was a bricklayer. Wat Tyler shot William Rufus in the New Forest. Whig is a name given to some people who wore wigs, and a Tory to a people who used to have their hair cut short. An Oasis is a ...
... in most cases wot we cal That is lef over from Saturday night. Gam o bloke wot calls 'isself a coster would fink of 4,. aid Whig once of a bloke wot slep in the same room t • did. Lor, ow 'e loved that Jerusalem . 111eE'ter, every night I berlieve as 'ow ...
... by instituting a race amongst the young watermen, and presenting to the winner an orange-coloured coat, suggestive of his Whig principles, and a badge of the white horse of Hanover, symbolic of Liberty. The coat was full of pockets, and each pocket ...