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... and lucidly wntttn and arranged; it is altogether Druery has long been recognised as an authority on the subject. NORTHERN WHIG.- Tee author understands h:s subject, and conveys his information in simple and practical language. The numerous illustrations ...
... · who rose to eminence, fought with Marlborough, and greatly distinguished himself at the siege of Lille in 1708. a staunch Whig, like his father, and political occupations and military service filled his active middle life. ·on the accession of George ...
... what to-day would he regarded pomp and politeness of the letters exchanged are beyond pr .=t ise. T here is not one of the Whigs who does not write like a statesman. Their words, in fact, were braver than t heir deeds, and the Such confidences T here is ...
... was ransomed in exchange for a general. tl,is l,eing the equivalent in military rank to an amateur golf champion. Then 11 Ir. Whig ham, coming back to the States qui e out of practice, lost the After that he returned to England, and, on the breaking out ...
... branches, but also a fre~h bole is hollow, and can be entered through a hole JUSt above the lower branch. clays when the great Whig, L ord Hol land, owned I\.mpthill H ouse, and often entertained his L ondon friends there, this tree bas bad a board attached ...
... night. It was here that Charles James Fox, Selwyn, Lord Carliole, L ord Robert Spencer, General Fitzpatrick, and other great Whigs won and lost hundreds of thousands, frequently remaining at the tables for many hours without rising. said to have played ...
... railway for the stage-coach, and his first two volumes are devoted to the period which elapsed between what he calls the last Whig Government, that is to say, the Premiership of L ord John Russell, which began in 1856, and the close of the .I almerstonian ...
... with which they used to insult such persons as they met on this day who had not oak leaves in their hats : 'Royal Oak, The Whigs to provoke.' There was a retort courteous by others, who contemptuously wore plane tree leaves, which is of the same homely ...
... with his Yorkshire groom behind him, to join the fighting His later years hardly followed the promise of this He remained a Whig and honest, was duke. His later years hardly scampering adventure. He Prime Minister for twelve month~ of a Coalition Ministry ...
... wHs the 29th or May, Royal Oak Apple Day, as the folks call it; and some of them as they passed cal led out : · 'Royal Oak I Whig provoke,' and pointed to the badge in their caps. Shropshire is the land or loyalty, an::! people still cherish there the memory ...
... his clay. A great supporter of Charies James Fox, Sam House, publican as he was, was honoured with the company of the great Whig nobility, and in one of Rowlandson 's caricatures he appears as a privileged visitor in the boudoir of the beautiful Duchess ...