... in all the sports of the time — was yet alive; his father occupied a seat in the House of Commons as an adherent of the Whig party ; and young Stanley naturally ranged himself on the same side. For three years, however, the man who was hereafter to ...

... he lighted on a cob, and a tax-cart. Harnessing this animal as best he could, he drove off to meet his master ; and thus the Whig Lord-Lieutenant of an influential county was received. Being a great walker, he permitted the butler and the tax-cart to convey ...